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Peer reviewedMcEachern, Robert W. – Technical Communication Quarterly, 2001
Notes that as service learning becomes a popular pedagogical approach in technical and professional writing courses, instructors need to examine critically the causes of practical problems that arise when classroom work involves nonprofit agencies. Notes that reflection may help students understand the problems they encountered, but it will not…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Nonprofit Organizations
Degelman, Charles; Philips, Susan – 1998
"Active Citizenship Today" (ACT) is a service learning program for the social studies. There are two things that make ACT different from other service learning programs: (1) the "learning" in service -- learning refers to traditional social studies content and skills (it is a civics model); and (2) ACT is built around a problem-solving framework.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics
Download full textAmerican Bar Association, Chicago, IL. Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship. – 1996
Organized around the theme of community service, this booklet provides teachers and lawyers with classroom materials for elementary grades K-3 (Level A), intermediate grades 4-6 (Level B), middle school grades 6-8 (Level C), and high school grades 9-12 (Level D). In addition, each level contains pages for the lawyer (marked by the scales of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Action
