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Download full textSundvall, Scott; Fredlund, Katherine – Composition Forum, 2017
Drawing from their experiences teaching two different activism-focused writing courses, the authors consider the benefits, pitfalls, and potential dangers of activist writing pedagogy. Scott provides a retrospective on a rhetoric and writing course focused on the employment of digital rhetoric, while Katherine reflects on an activist-rhetoric…
Descriptors: Activism, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies, Rhetoric
Direct linkPurcell, Margaret A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2015
In summer 2011, a course titled "Nonprofit Management" was offered as an undergraduate, junior-level course for nontraditional, adult, distance students at the University of Alabama (UA) who were enrolled in the New College LifeTrack (NCLT) program. This article discusses how the course was centered around a service-learning experience…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Undergraduate Students
Levine, Daniel H.; Bishai, Linda S. – United States Institute of Peace, 2010
Between 2006 and 2010, the United States Institute of Peace developed several civic education programs for Iraq and Sudan as part of broader efforts to promote postconflict stability and development and help prevent a return to violence. This report describes those programs after first examining the conceptual bases for civic education and how…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries, Peace, Prevention
Chen, Chao-Hsiu; Liao, Chen-Hung; Chen, Yi-Chieh; Lee, Chen-Feng – Internet and Higher Education, 2011
To well prepare pre-service teachers for their future teaching, researchers and teacher-educators have been employing information and communication technology to improve pre-service teachers' learning of subject-matter knowledge, pedagogies, classroom-management skills, and so on. This study illustrates a service-learning project we conducted to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Service Learning, Motivation, Tutors
Fiume, Peter Francis – Community College Enterprise, 2009
Noting the community college mandate for promoting civic engagement, the author addresses the issue of developing civically engaged community college classrooms in the midst of a decline in civic engagement nationwide. The paper proposes service learning pedagogy as a method for synthesizing classroom based academic knowledge and community based…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Service Learning, Teaching Methods, College Role
Peer reviewedMinter, Deborah Williams; Schweingruber, Heidi – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1996
Calls for greater attention to pedagogical challenges and opportunities to integrate service-learning and academic study, particularly in maintaining both content coverage and empowerment as objectives. Draws on transcripts of class discussions and student writing in a community service learning course focusing on literacy to trace students'…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Course Content
