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Passion for Learning, Passion for Life.
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Watts, Margit Misangyi – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
Using the example of an online service learning course, makes a case for the inclusion of service learning in higher education and the ability to do so seamlessly by using new communication technologies. (EV)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
A Pedagogy for Citizenship: Service Learning and Democratic Education.
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Mendel-Reyes, Meta – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
As a pedagogy for citizenship, academic service learning offers students the opportunity to experience and reflect on how citizens organize to bring their communities and their country closer to democracy. The three-course Democracy Project at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) illustrates how this approach can be developed within a college…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Democratic Values
Critical Multiculturalism and Service Learning.
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Rhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Discusses how critical multiculturalism can be used to inform academic service learning, offering as an example the case study of a Pennsylvania State University project in which college students work with homeless citizens in Washington, DC. Stresses the importance of intentionality in planning the community service components of academic service…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking
Academic Service Learning: Its Meaning and Relevance.
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Weigert, Kathleen Maas – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Academic service learning contributes to the renewal and satisfaction of faculty, offers new opportunities to think more consciously and creatively about relationships (faculty/student, disciplinary/interdisciplinary knowledge, campus/community), presents opportunities to contribute to the field's development, and offers a vehicle to faculty,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Creative Thinking