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Peer reviewedKeith, Novella Z. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1998
Describes an externally funded program that enabled twelve urban elementary schools to expand community outreach by hiring community residents and a program coordinator who worked with service agencies and teachers to develop a wide variety of activities catering to students and neighborhood members. One school's program is profiled. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedRice, Dale; Stacey, Kathleen – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1997
Faculty development in the pedagogy of service-learning is essential to the knowledgeable and sustained implementation of combined community service and academic study. A semester-long faculty-development seminar at Eastern Michigan University using small group interaction is described. The program achieved both cognitive and affective gains and a…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Faculty Development, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHudson, William E.; Trudeau, Robert H. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1995
Providence College (Rhode Island) has institutionalized service-learning into its liberal arts curriculum by creating an academic degree program in Public and Community Service Studies. The Feinstein Institute for Public Service administers this new major and minor, using the program as a catalyst for promoting service-learning throughout the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Degrees (Academic), Higher Education
Peer reviewedBuchanan, Renee L. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1998
Describes an effort to institutionalize service learning within the academic departments of the University of Utah. A community service center at the university, through its faculty advisory committee, developed campus-wide support for incorporating service learning into the core offerings of 14 academic units. Models developed by the academic…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Departments, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMendel-Reyes, Meta; Weinstein, Jeremy – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1996
Describes development of the first community service-learning program for democratic education in South Africa, based on the Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) Democracy Education Project at a black high school near Capetown (South Africa). Notes that successful transposition of the model requires recognition of complex historical and cultural…
Descriptors: Black Education, Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Democratic Values
Peer reviewedBullard, Julie; Maloney, Julie – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1997
Describes a college service-learning project addressing a crucial need for school-age child care within the community. While creating and implementing the after-school program, students took responsibility for their decisions, cooperated to solve problems and delegate tasks, and developed leadership and self-efficacy. The result was student…
Descriptors: After School Programs, College Students, Day Care, Higher Education
