Describes a role-playing activity and a youth community service club project which illustrate how citizenship can be learned through experience. Shows how community involvement in educational activities can help convey positive values about society and impart knowledge and skills which help youngsters become productive members of that society.…

John Dewey proposed a transactive educational process in which personal experiences and development interacted with curriculum in order to transform the learner and the learning procedure. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate ways in which some of Dewey's concepts of progressive education provide a theoretical rationale for the increasing…

Issues of university independence versus the responsibilities entailed in full acceptance of its cultural, social, and economic role are discussed. To define the university's environment, the concept of service is critically examined, and implicit strategies for the development of relations between the university and the community are identified.…