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Burke-Hengen, Mary, Ed.; Gillespie, Tim, Ed. – 1995
This book focuses on building community through the sharing of history and traditions that students have inherited. Two eighth-grade teachers collaborated with others in their Oregon school to collect teaching strategies for this book. The teachers worked to build curriculum that integrated social studies with language arts and other subject…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community, Family History, Family Influence
Udall, Denis, Ed.; Mednick, Amy, Ed. – 1996
The founders of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound drew on the metaphor of a wilderness expedition to develop a framework for curriculum design. During "learning expeditions," teachers and students pursue long-term intellectual investigations build around significant projects and performances. The investigations take students out into…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Download full textGottlieb, Karla, Ed.; Robinson, Gail, Ed. – 2002
This curriculum guide discusses civic responsibility, how it is tied to service learning, how faculty can integrate concepts and exercises in a practical way, and how faculty can assess the development of civic responsibility in their students. Civic responsibility is defined here as active participation in the public life of a community, in an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, College Curriculum, Community Colleges
Kinsley, Carol W., Ed.; McPherson, Kate, Ed. – 1995
In this practical guide to service learning, 21 contributors describe specific service-learning projects that have enhanced the curriculum in schools across the United States and that have improved student learning in the process. In the Foreword, U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, encourages schools to incorporate service learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Pace, Jerry – 2002
Students in a poor, rural county in South Carolina worked with their community to build a new volunteer fire station, enabling many residents to get fire insurance. The project enabled students to see the relevance of education and to be seen as solutions to problems rather than as problems, generated enthusiasm among students toward the community…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Cooperation
Starnes, Bobby Ann; Carone, Angela – 1999
For over 30 years, Foxfire has been developing an approach to learning that is learner-centered and community-focused. Foxfire's initial success resulted from a successful student-produced magazine in a rural Georgia high school. Attempts to duplicate this success often overlooked the key ingredients, student choice and academic integrity, that…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Educational Practices
Greene, Rebecca – 2001
This book, which is intended for high school students, explains how to scout out alternative learning opportunities available to high school students and how to select, prepare for, and make the most of alternative programs. The book begins with a definition of alternative learning and a brief overview of the many types of alternative learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adolescents, Adventure Education, Annotated Bibliographies
