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Petra Rauschert; Jacqueline Alexander – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book provides a much-needed overview of the theory and practice of intercultural service learning (ISL), an approach that combines curricular learning, intercultural encounters and community service. It includes a model that outlines the essential components of this pedagogy and which is intended to serve as a foundation for practitioners…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Service Learning, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
Lansiquot, Reneta D., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016
This book highlights models for promoting interdisciplinary thinking and an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding among students in STEM-related fields. Students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics often perceive that courses in their major are not related to the general education liberal arts courses required…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Students, Majors (Students)
Gent, Pamela J. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service-learning--the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there's a practical how-to guide on using serving-learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Individualized Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Jacoby, Barbara; And Others – 1996
The 14 readings in this book focus on service learning in higher education, its theoretical framework, the advantages of various techniques, and practical means for implementation. Service learning is seen to offer students the chance to combine academic knowledge/skills with community experience. Chapter titles and authors are: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Responsibility, Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education
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Schine, Joan, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1997
This yearbook contains 14 essays that address a wide variety of issues that educators, policymakers, and others involved in education are exploring in order to expand the understanding of the burgeoning field of service learning. The following papers are included: "Youth Participation: Integrating Youth into Communities" (Peter…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Higher Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
Witmer, Judith T.; Anderson, Carolyn S. – 1994
A great deal has been said and written about the importance of giving students the opportunity to provide service to others. This book is designed to provide educators with a "crash course" in how to start or repair such a program in their schools or districts. Following the introduction, chapter 1 defines service learning and explores its…
Descriptors: High Schools, Human Resources, Human Services, Program Design
Hanson-Smith, Elizabeth, Ed.; Rilling, Sarah, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2007
While posing important questions about how learning proceeds with new technologies, this volume demonstrates how teachers captivate the imagination of learners, from schoolchildren to postgraduates, by providing real-world purposes for language. The authors are from educational institutions in many regions of the world, and describe technology use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology
Grey House Publishing, 2009
A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field. Updated through current events, this second edition provides an excellent introduction to special education in all of its practical aspects--how it developed, its curriculum,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, General Education, Legal Responsibility
Pines, Marion, Ed. – 1999
This document profiles nine youth programs, illustrating concepts, strategies, and lessons available to communities as they start to form an integrated network of essential services designed to prepare out-of-school youth for success in the job market of the 21st century. "Introduction" (Marion Pines) lists considerations when planning a…
Descriptors: Community Development, Conservation (Environment), Counseling Services, Delivery Systems