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Download full textLos Angeles Unified School District, CA. – 1990
Youth Community Service (YCS), is the largest, urban, school-based service program in the nation. Through chapters on 24 high school campuses and district-wide leadership development retreats and conferences, YCS students examine community issues, and plan, initiate, and complete community service projects. This document is a yearly publication…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services
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
Elements of Technology, 1976
More than a dozen community projects designed, drawn, and built by senior technical education students are described. Practical experience for the students, with advice from town engineers and material from industry, and equipment and structures for the community are provided by the projects. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT),…
Descriptors: Community Services, Critical Path Method, Scheduling, School Business Relationship
Peer reviewedEnviroTeach, 1992
Introduces networking projects for studying rivers and water quality. Describes two projects in South Africa (Project W.A.T.E.R and SWAP) associated with the international network, Global Rivers Environmental Education Network. Discusses water test kits and educational material developed through Project W.A.T.E.R. (Water Awareness through…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Involvement, Community Services, Environmental Education
Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. Office of Institutional Assessment and Testing. – 1994
To document the extent and nature of community service activity by Western Washington University students, a survey was conducted of 1,513 individuals who received a bachelor's degree between Fall 1992 and Summer 1993. Almost half the students had participated in community service activities. These activities included internship experiences,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Students, Community Programs, Community Services
Peer reviewedDavis, Chris – Social Studies Review, 1996
Recommends a broad application of experiential learning and community service projects as a means of reinvigorating social studies and making them relevant. Describes a number of projects from service learning to local history that illustrate this approach. Discusses this approach in terms of benefits, real life application, and assessment. (MJP)
Descriptors: Community Services, Course Content, Cross Age Teaching, Cultural Awareness
