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Silcox, Harry C.; Leek, Torun E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
The service-learning movement is widespread in European international schools. The most comprehensive initiative presented at two recent European Council of Independent Schools conferences was the Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) course that students must pass to graduate from International Baccalaureate schools. Exemplary programs in England…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stachowski, Laura L.; Visconti, Virginia A. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1998
Examines data from service-learning projects planned and performed by U.S. student teachers in several English-speaking countries. Students received teaching and service-learning assignments in the various countries. They wrote reports documenting their activities from conception to conclusion. The paper describes the various assignments and…
Descriptors: Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Drake, Barry – International Schools Journal, 2001
Suggests ways in which service-learning programs can be included in middle school curricula and describes two such projects. States that a meaningful evaluation of a school's service program is only possible if a number of discrete, observable features of success can be identified that afford the opportunity for objective measurement. (NB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Exchange Programs, Global Education