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Direct linkKwok-bong, Chan – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: In recent years, more and more secondary schools in Hong Kong begin to employ service learning in designing student learning activities. A vast majority of these attempts is developed based on the philanthropic ideas of altruism, love and care; it involves serving elderly people living in the elderly homes far away from the school…
Descriptors: Community Services, Secondary Schools, Altruism, Service Learning
Degelman, Charles, Ed. – Service-Learning Network, 2001
This issue of "Service Learning Network" examines a world where teachers, students, and community members break the age barrier in service to their communities. "Images of Intergenerational Service" (Paul Simon), offers images of intergenerational service from political and personal points of view. "The Gathering of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Intergenerational Programs
Peer reviewedJackson, Rebecca Osborne – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
A teacher of fifth to seventh graders with learning disabilities describes a community-based gardening project which served elderly residents of a rest home while exposing the children to elderly people and encouraging development and application of environmental, writing, mathematics, and communication skills. The project integrated curriculum in…
Descriptors: Gardening, Integrated Curriculum, Intergenerational Programs, Intermediate Grades
Follman, Joseph; And Others – 1994
Defining service learning as the formal integration of public service into student instruction and learning, this guide provides teachers with ideas for narrowing the gap between what students do in school and what they will do after they leave school. The example activities, derived from actual projects, demonstrate the nearly limitless range of…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Loewen, Jerry – 1996
This paper examines the definition and practice of intergenerational learning programs, and attempts to determine the characteristics of successful and meaningful programs of this type. The first section defines intergenerational learning and states its purpose: to bring young and old together for the purpose of learning from one another, under…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Apprenticeships, Children
Peer reviewedHammrich, Penny L. – School Community Journal, 1998
Once a week, several classrooms of Philadelphia 4th-grade girls participate in Sisters in Science, an afterschool, intergenerational program sponsored by Temple University that provides hand-on activities exploring urban environmental issues. A two-week summer camp program helps these students explore the rivers of Philadelphia. Participants…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Career Education, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
