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Volunteering for College Credit.
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Redfering, David L.; Biasco, Frank – College Student Journal, 1982
Reviews the literature in volunteering as it relates to a university credit course for students volunteering in human services agencies. Discusses the development of the program, along with the advantages to students, agencies, and the university. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: College Credits, College Students, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Brazil's Project Rondon: Proving a "Realistic" Education, Helping the Country.
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Mulford, Carolyn – Change, 1983
Brazil's Project Rondon, an educational program aimed at broadening a student's education and to assist in the development of the nation's most poverty-stricken areas, is described. Teaching the poor to meet their own needs is the guiding philosophy. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Developing Nations, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
Student Human Services Volunteer Programs for Rural Communities - A Practical Guide.
Bailey, Bruce E.; Ray, Patricia E. – 1983
This guide describes the organization, administration, and maintenance of a student volunteer program designed to provide experiential learning to students and paraprofessional staff in rural human service agencies. The need for volunteer paraprofessionals in rural human service agencies, the benefits of a student volunteer program to both…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Experiential Learning: Theory and Practical Applications in Secondary Schools.
Crew, Adolph – 1977
Verbal learning does not prepare adolescents for a society which expects students to graduate as adults from secondary school. This is obvious when one sees how often adolescents are excluded from adult activities and responsibilities. Experiential learning can provide students with a link between academic content and the self-confidence adulthood…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Career Education, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement
Learning To Serve. A Statement on the Contribution of Saint Joseph's University to the Development and Revitalization of the Greater Philadelphia Area.
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James-Deramo, Michele – 1994
Commitment to the improvement of the social order underlies and challenges the kind of educational program that Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, strives to offer its students. Between 63 and 73 percent of traditionally-aged seniors at Saint Joseph's indicated that they participated in some form of community service during…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Programs, Community Programs
Praxis II. Service-Learning Resources for University Students, Staff and Faculty.
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Meiland, Rachel, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed.; Callan, Mary Jo, Ed.; Smith, Rick, Ed. – 1993
This book gathers the comments of 27 contributors who are organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff on a University of Michigan sociology praxis course, which combines community service with seminar-related opportunities for reflection, relevant readings, discussion questions and activities, journal assignments and meaningful,…
Descriptors: After School Education, Cross Cultural Training, Drug Addiction, Experiential Learning
Praxis III. Voices in Dialogue.
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Howard, Jeffrey, Ed.; Waterhouse, Dave, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed. – 1995
The 27 chapters of this book provide presentations, conference transcripts, manuals, and reflections by organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff of service-learning sociology and education courses at the University of Michigan. The chapters are: "What National and Community Service Mean for Higher Education" (Goodwin…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Change Agents, Citizenship Education, Community Change