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The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Changing American Education. Recapturing the Past or Inventing the Future?
Borman, Kathryn M., Ed.; Greenman, Nancy P., Ed. – 1994
This book examines the nature of comprehensive, large scale historical and social changes that contextualize educational reform, and it amplifies the meaning of lessons learned by those who have assisted in change efforts. It also examines how the rhetoric of educational change may fall short of the reality, as translated to processes and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Certification, Community Involvement, Cultural Pluralism
Enriching the Curriculum through Service Learning.
Kinsley, Carol W., Ed.; McPherson, Kate, Ed. – 1995
In this practical guide to service learning, 21 contributors describe specific service-learning projects that have enhanced the curriculum in schools across the United States and that have improved student learning in the process. In the Foreword, U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, encourages schools to incorporate service learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Readings from Childhood Education. Volume II.
Quisenberry, James D., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This anthology is the second volume of selected articles from the periodical Childhood Education. It includes 82 articles from 1964 to 1985 that represent many aspects of the child and the child's developmental environment. Articles by leaders in the field of childhood education, spokespersons in related fields, and teachers and parents are…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Involvement, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development
Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today: Stories of Inclusion, Change, and Renewal. Special Education Series.
Berres, Michael S., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book discusses the inclusion of children with disabilities in general education settings and provides accounts of successful inclusive school communities. A prologue by Michael S. Berres is titled "All Children, All Schools." Chapter 1, "Is It Inclusion Yet? Bursting the Bubbles" (Dianne L. Ferguson), reviews the status of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Curriculum Design
Perspectives on Community College ESL, Volume 1: Pedagogy, Programs, Curricula, and Assessment
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Spaventa, Marilyn, Ed.; Machado, Craig, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2006
English as a second language (ESL) programs in community colleges are as diverse in the models they follow as the students they serve. This volume provides a detailed look at how faculty and administrators are tailoring their ESL programs to best serve the needs of their students and the missions of their institutions. The authors of the thirteen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Adult Students, Community Colleges