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Bailey, Bruce E.; Ray, Patricia E. – 1983
This guide describes the organization, administration, and maintenance of a student volunteer program designed to provide experiential learning to students and paraprofessional staff in rural human service agencies. The need for volunteer paraprofessionals in rural human service agencies, the benefits of a student volunteer program to both…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
ACTION, Washington, DC. National Student Volunteer Program. – 1974
Four elements of the planning by objectives system (purposes, long- and short-term objectives, and planning details) are explained in this manual for people who work with high school or college student volunteer programs which provide experiential learning through community service. Following an introduction on the fundamentals of the system, a…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Community Services, Educational Objectives, Experiential Learning

O'Connell, Richard – Journal of Experiential Education, 1985
Recounts evolution of School Concern Project, begun in Oxfordshire, England, in 1978 and staffed by professional teachers and therapists, into minimally budgeted organization staffed by physically disabled volunteers in 1984. Describes how students, including those with learning and behavioral needs, were involved in design and production of items…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Experiential Learning, Leadership, Physical Disabilities

Bounous, Ruth M. – Journal of Career Development, 1986
Depicts an experiential learning schema that is a framework for an integrated postsecondary program. The program would be located in the career center and would include (1) volunteer service, (2) externships, (3) internships, (4) cooperative education, and (5) part-time work or work-study. Presents possible outcomes. (CH)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Education, Counseling Services, Experiential Learning
Shane, Ruth S. – New Directions for Experiential Learning, 1983
The community experience program at Boston University, designed to provide services to students and faculty in the areas of field education, career exploration, and voluntary action, is described. The staff's understanding of formal and informal systems was the key to successful program development. (MLW)
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning

Davis, Richard H.; Westbrook, Gerald Jay – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Describes an educational program providing structured intergenerational dialogs facilitated by visiting older volunteers for 10- to 11-year-old students. Program evaluation data indicated educational experience resulted in an increase in level awareness of aging issues and of older persons. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitude Change, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Parsons, Cynthia – 1996
This book espouses service learning as an important and integral part of school for students. It stresses the positive benefits to be gained from service learning, as well as the good the activities do for the community. It notes that service learning should be used to promote a sense of civic responsibility and pride in students. It also promotes…
Descriptors: Career Education, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Educational Needs
Burnham, Ruth Bradford – 1978
Rooted in the philosophy of John Dewey and the work of Kurt Hahn, experiential education is a process of whole person education based on active participation by the learner in the learning situation. As professionals committed to student development, student personnel administrators are particularly well-suited philosophically and institutionally…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Extracurricular Activities, Facilities

Storey, Eileen – 1989
The report describes a 2-year project at Marymount Manhattan College (New York) to develop and implement a community service program which provides student participants with tuition credits. Students served in either a shelter for homeless women or with a tutorial program for adults preparing for the high-school equivalency examination. The report…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Credits, College Students, Community Organizations
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY.
Suggestions for starting or improving youth participation projects are presented for staffs in a broad range of agencies--Red Cross, YMCA/YWCA, Boy and Girl Scouts, alternative community-based programs, and government agencies dealing with youth. Two central concerns are greater involvement of young people already in contact with youth-serving…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Problems
Swortzel, Kirk A., Comp.; Talbert, B. Allen, Comp. – 1997
These proceedings present 10 papers, each of which is followed by written comments/critiques. Following the conference program the papers are as follows: "Priority Topics for Faculty Development in Agricultural Distance Education" (Greg Miller, Ana Carr) reports faculty placed greater emphasis on planning and teaching behavior.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Cognitive Style, Curriculum
Langenbach, Michael, Comp. – 1991
Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning" (Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's Learning Project" (Brockett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Adult Educators