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Hill, Eddie – Physical Educator, 2022
Day camps are a powerful context for youth development. The American Camp Association and Leave No Trace have been integral in supporting youth development by identifying outcomes associated with participation in outdoor recreation. Recreation majors in the programming class used the camp as a service-learning component of the class that offered…
Descriptors: Day Camp Programs, Youth Programs, Service Learning, Recreation
Ethan R. Van Norman – Online Submission, 2022
The Promise Fellow Program is an intervention designed to prevent dropout amongst students in grades 6-12 in Minnesota that show early warning signs of school disengagement. The program is led by interventionists known as Promise Fellows and provides three research-based supports that align with the National Dropout Prevention Center's "Basic…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Federal Programs, Attendance, Instructional Program Divisions
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Coulter, Robert W. S.; Colvin, Sharon; Onufer, Lindsay R.; Arnold, Glynis; Akiva, Thomas; D'Ambrogi, Eric; Davis, Vanessa – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
Pre-service teachers rarely receive training on how best to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) high school students. We tested whether participating in LGBTQ-focused service-based learning or LGBTQ-focused didactic training improved pre-service teachers' knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and skills for serving LGBTQ…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Training, LGBTQ People, Student Needs
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Brett, Christine E. W.; O'Merle, Mary Jane; White, Gene – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2017
This article describes ROCKETS, an after-school program for at-risk youth, and how the university students became involved in this service-learning project. The article discusses the steps that were taken to start the program, what is being done to continue the program, and the challenges that faculty have faced. This program is an authentic…
Descriptors: After School Programs, At Risk Students, Youth Programs, Service Learning
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King, Teresa C.; Garcia, Miguel – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study was to conduct a longitudinal examination of the relationship between sustained after-school participation and a district's Early Warning Index associated with school dropout in a large urban school district. The study included 64,351 students participating between 2000-2001 and the 2011-2012 school years. Data were…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Academic Persistence, Student Participation, Dropouts
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Jurmu, Michael – Journal of Geography, 2015
Even as service-learning has become more prevalent in higher education as a high-impact teaching methodology, barriers still exist to its implementation by some instructors. One concern is the perception of these types of activities infringing upon course content. This article outlines an example of an introductory service-learning project for an…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Barriers, Physical Geography, Teaching Methods
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Cero, Ian; Sifers, Sarah – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
Childhood physical abuse is a major risk factor for suicide attempt, but factors that moderate this risk remain largely unexamined. Moderated mediation analysis was used with 186 adolescents who responded to the Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behavior survey. Physical abuse increased risk directly and indirectly through reduced…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, At Risk Persons, Adolescents, Suicide
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Rector, Patricia; Lyons, Rachel; Yost, Theresa – Journal of Extension, 2013
Using an interdisciplinary approach to water resource education, 4-H Youth Development and Environmental Extension agents enlisted 4-H teens to connect local watershed education with social action. Teens participated in a dynamic service learning project that included learning about nonpoint source pollution; constructing, decorating, and teaching…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Water, Natural Resources
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Oliver, Jennifer A. – Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 2011
This study connected a service learning project with the mission of the university by examining how students described the concepts of "transforming lives" and "social justice." Twenty-one undergraduate students worked as mentors with at-risk children and youth. The roles of the students and the community partner had an impact…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Mentors
Godsay, Surbhi; Kiesa, Abby; Kawashima-Ginsberg, Kei; Henderson, Whitney; Levine, Peter – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2012
This study tells the story of the transformation of a substantial group of young people. Today they are exemplary civic leaders. A significant number of them hold public office or are church leaders, such as pastors. More than one third are professional educators or youth workers. Almost all are leaders in their families, workplaces, and…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Job Training, Counseling
Ngee, Lee Mah – Online Submission, 2011
This paper presents a study of 428 youths who participated in service-learning projects in developing countries in South-East Asia, China and India. Using mixed-method approach, this study examined the reasons for their participation in the YEP (youth expedition projects) and the impact of their service-learning experiences on their civic…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Foreign Countries
Brown, Enora – Educational Horizons, 2010
The GO-GIRL Program is a unique project, characterized by its ability to bring together pivotal elements within a youth-intervention program and foster collaboration between university and local communities in large and moderate-size urban areas through service learning. Designed to bolster the social-skill development, educational outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Youth Programs, Urban Areas, Females
Sivukamaran, Thillainatarajan; Holland, Glenda; Clark, Leonard J. – Online Submission, 2010
This study describes the collaborative partnership between a Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, an elementary school and the College of Education at a public university. The partnership utilized a mentoring system consisting of elementary students, college students, elementary teachers and university faculty. Benefits of the various…
Descriptors: Mentors, Partnerships in Education, Agency Cooperation, School Community Relationship
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McAdam, Doug; Brandt, Cynthia – Social Forces, 2009
We use survey data from all accepted applicants to Teach for America 1993-98 to assess the longer-term effect of youth service on participants' current civic attitudes and behaviors. While TFA "graduates" score higher than the two comparison groups--"drop-outs" and "non-matriculants"--on a broad range of attitudinal items measuring civic…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Volunteers, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
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Galvan, Christine; Parker, Melissa – Journal of Experiential Education, 2011
Constructivism theory (Crotty, 1998) served as the framework to investigate the reciprocal nature of a service-learning project that involved physical education pre-service teachers and urban underserved youth. Participants included three physical education teacher education (PETE) candidates and 15 youth between the ages of 6 and 13 who were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Service Learning
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