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Peer reviewedMendel-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
Peer reviewedRhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
Discusses how service learning can promote the development of a "caring self" in college students by drawing on the ideas of John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and contemporary critical theorists. Links this caring self to democratic citizenship and uses students' narratives to illustrate how it develops through service learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Helping Relationship
Peer reviewedGiles, Dwight E., Jr.; Eyler, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Top issues in service learning research include how service learning enhances subject matter; defining expected outcomes; identifying the processes of effective service learning; faculty involvement; effect on educational institutions; institutional policies, practices supporting/enhancing service learning; nature of effective community…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Citizenship Education, College Faculty, College Instruction
