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Challenging College Students' Assumptions about Community Service Tutoring.
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Bornstein, Jodi L. – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Examines how faculty and student leaders in the Tutoring Enrichment Assistance Models for Schools (TEAMS) project, a community service project at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) challenge assumptions that college students have about tutoring and promote new understanding of stereotypes, hierarchical group dynamics, and inequality in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Community Programs, Equal Education
There Are Children Here: Service Learning for Social Justice
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Boyle-Baise, Marilynne; Langford, James – Equity and Excellence in Education, 2004
We describe what happens in a justice-oriented, service learning course and field experience and what university participants thought about it. Based on this examination, we consider promises and problems for service learning for social justice, and we suggest next steps for this kind of work. In this article, we consider one Alternative Spring…
Descriptors: Social Values, Social Influences, Minority Group Children, Consciousness Raising
Community Service Learning at Putnam High School.
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Gonzalez, Juan; And Others – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
A male minority-group high school student and a teacher at Putnam High School in Springfield (Massachusetts) share experiences with community service learning (CSL) projects. A project facilitator describes the plans for implementing CSL throughout the city. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Citizenship Education, Community Programs, High School Students