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Stewart, Kristyn; Sutherland, Danielle Morris – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study uses ethnographic methods to generate an understanding of college students' experiences participating in an immersive service-learning program located in an urban, high poverty neighborhood. While living in the community, students learned from organizers and participated in activities designed to build relationships that enhanced their…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Service Learning, Urban Schools
Soukup, Paul A. – 1996
Experiential education, and more specifically service-learning, connects students with a different kind of education. Moreover, service-learning provides the opportunity for students to listen to voices seldom heard in academia. Experiential learning and service-learning have taken on an important role in contemporary schooling and are being…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services, Experiential Learning
Batenburg, Mark P. – 1995
Agency-school collaborations are examined from the point of view of the agency. The data for the analysis were gathered through interviews with staff people from six different community-based organizations in California, all of whom have experience working with schools and youth volunteers. The study found that there often are culture clashes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, High School Students
Hill, Don; Pope, Denise Clark – 1995
Part 1 of this paper briefly describes the Service Learning 2000 partnership that joined Stanford University, K-12 schools, and community organizations in a collaborative effort to promote service learning throughout California. In part 2, the paper examines how the Service Learning 2000 Center has established a niche for service learning at the…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
Swezey, Megan – 1994
This paper describes the work of Youth Service California, a state-wide collaboration of public and private organizations that since 1990 has brought the voice of the local youth service field to state level policy and program development. Youth Service California's purpose is the further development of a diverse state movement to increase and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community Resources
Couto, Richard A. – 1994
Experiential education, service learning in particular, offers one pedagogy for teaching democracy. This paper presents a rationale for teaching democracy through service learning and provides general and specific guidelines for accomplishing the goal. Models of service learning are described that teachers can incorporate into classroom…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community Involvement
Carver, Rebecca L. – 1997
A study examined experiential education programs in terms of how they developed participants' personal agency, sense of belonging, and levels of competence. Personal agency empowers students to become change agents in their lives and communities; sense of belonging enables participants to see themselves as members of a community with rights and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Educational Objectives
Sledge, Alinda C.; And Others – 1993
Delta State University (Mississippi) encourages the development of the affective domain of its students, including its education majors, through their participation in a course called Volunteering in the Community. This paper reviews the concept of service learning and the findings of a Brevard Community College (Florida) survey concerning…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Community Programs, Continuing Education Units, Credit Courses
Welkowitz, Julie A.; Broer, Stephen M.; Topper, Karen; Thomas, Cassandra; Backus, Linda; Hamilton, Ruth – 2000
This report explores the impact, through themes that emerged in interviews with 59 participating adolescents, of the Mentor/Advisor Program on students with or at risk of emotional disturbance. The Mentor/Advisor Program is implemented as part of the existing regular education high school curriculum and is designed to promote resiliency and school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Community Involvement, Community Programs