Queens College's Big Buddy program is a service-learning project that not only helped its target audience--homeless children--but also improved racial and ethnic relations among the college student participants. The students experienced positive growth in acquaintance potential, equal status, authority norms, and pursuit of common goals. (SK)

Reviews the progress of 62 state-funded service-learning programs in Pennsylvania schools during 1992-95. Each site completed an extensive annual program profile, tracked student service and hours, and was visited by an evaluation team member who observed actual implementation. Success depends on organizational commitment, service-learning…

Describes potential areas for service-learning research involving older adults. Provides methodological recommendations intended to address such issues as recruitment, retention, and randomization of participants; appropriateness of assessment tools; student training in research methods; and treatment of topics such as sexuality. (Contains 46…

Describes the use of a service learning framework to guide faculty and students who engage in community development and capacity-building activities. A case study describes projects regarding access to information for environmental problem solving in a Cleveland neighborhood. (Contains 35 references.) (Author/JOW)

Discusses service learning in library and information science (LIS) education. Highlights include advantages of service learning, including increased student learning, extended collaboration, decreased isolation, and community building; examples of service learning projects, including fieldwork; and reflection as a component in fieldwork.…

Presents one college professor's account of how service learning might help facilitate meaningful discussions on race in an undergraduate course on Social Foundations of Education, describing the dynamics that tend to unfold whenever "race" comes up in class discussions, analyzing the benefits and potential pitfalls of service learning, and…

Work-based learning is a way to increase students' engagement in learning and prepare them for employment. Inspired by the apprenticeship concept, the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act supports other types of work-based learning, including visits to workplaces, work-like experiences, and employment. Article notes youth apprenticeship…

Technology teacher education students formulated and executed a service learning project in which they organized a mock production company and produced and marketed a product. Proceeds were donated to charity. The project integrated learning about manufacturing operations with community service. (SK)

Highlights the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) mission of service by uncovering unique service programs at 23 institutions located across the nation. Service programs are divided into initiatives aimed at the HBCU student population and the African American community at large. (GCP)

Considers how much of an impact service learning pedagogies have had among those who teach journalism and mass communication. Attempts to fill the research void by assessing the current state of this pedagogical movement within the journalism/mass communication discipline, and suggests that a formal process for incorporating service learning into…

Argues that the conflicts and contradictions of community outreach (such as service learning) call for an intercultural inquiry that not only seeks more diverse rival readings, but constructs multivoiced negotiated meanings in practice. Presents a case study in which students use the practice of intercultural inquiry to go beyond a contact zone…

Describes a service learning project in the environmental sciences in which students learn about global sustainability through exploring issues such as energy and its effects on their everyday lives. (YDS)

Reveals a few of the obstacles that hinder the sustainability of community literacy programs. Finds that professors in service learning courses can better sustain these initiatives when they view the community site as a place where their research, teaching, and service contribute to a community's self-defined needs and students' learning. (SG)

The Points of Light Foundation suggests numerous family volunteering activities during the December holiday season. Categorized according to opening heart and home, music and entertainment, holiday meals and treats, arts and crafts, transportation/delivery, and the environment, the activities could also be adapted for school or school-family use.…

Discusses service-learning programs initiated by colleges which demonstrate benefits of practical work experience for students, services received by the community, and improved public relations for the college. Notes that a campus-based volunteer coordination effort is the missing link between students eager to serve and the agencies and…