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Hall, McClellan – Journal of Experiential Education, 1992
Explains the Cherokee concept of "gadugi," a tradition of interdependency and service which is reflected in the service component of the Native Indian Youth Leadership Project (NYLP). Provides examples of three levels of service in NYLP: (1) traditional community-generated service; (2) program-generated service; and (3) student-generated…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Community Services, Cultural Education, Public Service
Cohen, Carolyn – 1996
This paper reports on an exploratory investigation into some of the possible benefits of service participation. Using the national service program AmeriCorps as a case in point, the paper examines how the service experience might affect participants' citizenship development, workplace skills and career plans. Results are drawn from four focus…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community Services

1996
This document lists those guides most pertinent to service-learning in the collection at the National Service-Learning Cooperative Clearinghouse (NSLCC). Each citation provides bibliographic information, an indication of the type of guide, a program grade level, and the source or sources where the guide can be obtained. If an abstract was…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Citizenship Education, Community Services, Public Service
Wade, Rahima C., Ed. – 1997
This book provides a comprehensive guide to help educators in K-12 service learning programs. Each of the book's four parts provides a different scope and purpose. Part 1, "Community Service-Learning," addresses the components of quality service learning programs and includes the chapters (all written by Rahima C. Wade) : (1) "Community…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools

Serow, Robert C.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1996
This study identified factors associated with support for service learning (SL) among institutions of higher education. Surveys of SL programs in North Carolina indicated that institutionalization of SL was closely associated with such institutional characteristics as degree of faculty involvement and emphasis on academic goals in SL courses.…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Services, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Hirsch, Deborah; Lynton, Ernest – 1995
This essay argues that proponents of service learning and faculty professional service should join forces to pursue a common agenda of community outreach. It maintains that at a time when colleges and universities are being urged to help solve society's problems, the faculty represents a virtually untapped resource. The current system of promotion…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, Community Services, Higher Education
Luce, Janet, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This annotated bibliography of 245 items published from 1970 through 1987 is intended to guide newcomers toward and remind service-learning veterans of key literature in the field. Sections of the bibliography include definitions and history, rationales, service-learning in higher education and in secondary education, theoretical and philosophical…
Descriptors: Community Services, Guidelines, Higher Education, Literature
Sandler, Linda; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1993
Arizona's Serve-America Project is a K-12 community service program funded by the National and Community Service Act of 1990. Through formal school/community agency and youth organization/community agency partnerships, the project is designed to: (1) encourage school-age and out-of-school youth to volunteer their services; (2) increase the number…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Services, Dropout Programs
Eberly, Donald J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1977
If full-time service experience is important to the maturation of young people, then federal support for service learning is imperative, because most young people require financial support to underwrite their service. Experiences with the Peace Corps, ACTION, VISTA, and especially University Year for ACTION (UYA) are described. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Community Services, Federal Aid, Financial Needs, Government Role
Corporation for National Service, Washington, DC. – 1999
This handbook provides AmeriCorps Promise Fellows with important information about their participation in this special initiative of AmeriCorps and America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth. Section 1 is an overview of AmeriCorps, including its mission, the mission of America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth, and the role of AmeriCorps Promise…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Child Welfare, Community Problems

Connor-Linton, Jeff – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1995
Discusses indirect service-learning, in which students do not participate directly in fieldwork but learn about some sector of the community through their teacher's research and/or community service, and use knowledge acquired through the course to create a service or product meeting community need. Argues that this approach improves student…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Services, Course Descriptions, Higher Education
Goldsmith, Suzanne – 1995
This guidebook explores the role of journal writing in community-service leadership and learning. Specifically, it offers suggestions to community-service leaders to help engage their teams in reflective journal writing. The introduction provides an overview of the history of journal-keeping. Chapter 1 provides a rationale for the use of…
Descriptors: Community Services, Diaries, Journal Writing, Personal Narratives
Pickeral, Terry – 1993
This report explains the need for viable and effective partnerships between K-12 schools and institutions of higher education involving service and service-learning, and discusses the State of Washington's experience in this area. It is stated that both rural and urban schools have found service and service-learning to be effective methods of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Clay, Rebecca – 1992
This idea book comes from projects undertaken by American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) chapters and state and local retired teachers associations around the United States. The projects described range from simple acts performed by one volunteer to elaborate schemes funded by corporations, from involvement in existing programs to the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education
Hoffman, John – Momentum, 1997
Offers educators and students an integrated model for participation in community service. The model focuses students on community service for an entire semester, during which they gain valuable interpersonal interaction and work experience, and wages for both personal and class time. (YKH)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Community Involvement, Community Services, Curriculum Development