Examined the linkage between experiential educational programs that emphasize civic engagement and the activities of local governmental and nonprofit organizations. While leaders of governments and organizations have only irregular contacts with higher education programs that might encourage civic engagement, and leaders perceive a diverse range…

Using the example of an online service learning course, makes a case for the inclusion of service learning in higher education and the ability to do so seamlessly by using new communication technologies. (EV)

Describes the pitfalls that schools may encounter in requiring community service for high school graduation. In planning service-learning programs, schools should ask "In service of what?" Schools should first define their ideological, political, and social goals; provide teacher training, and incorporate the program into the curriculum. (LMI)

This article, written by four undergraduates with extensive experience in community-based research (CBR), summarizes each author's project and offers their views on conditions necessary for CBR success and benefits of CBR for students. (Author)

Human service educators face increasing pressure to design programs that respond more directly to students' needs. This article reports on service learning as one strategy for more actively engaging students in the learning process and for applying theory to practice. Methods for designing, implementing, and evaluating a service learning…

Presents an approach to teaching a consulting course that uses instructional frameworks and a service learning perspective. Notes the course explores consulting by using theoretical frameworks for thinking about and conducting consulting activities. Discusses the consulting research assignment, the service learning assignment, and considers course…

Colleges and universities continually search for ways to enhance the safety and security of their educational programs and physical plant. This article examines how the University of Southern California and other institutions are using collaborative efforts with the local community to enhance their mutual safety and security through dynamic…

This introduction to a special issue reviews the community service movement in the 1960s-70s, current calls for youth involvement in community service, and the semantic differences related to the term "service learning." (SK)

When effectively structured and related to discipline-based knowledge, public and community service-based learning is the means for linking the development of social responsibility with the improvement of undergraduate education. (SK)

Describes development of the U.S. service-learning movement: early roots; American Youth Foundation and National Youth Leadership Council leadership camps for youth, which combined adventure, performing arts, and social justice themes; the campaign to implement an integrated statewide youth-service model in Minnesota; creation of AmeriCorps; and…

Describes service learning, and how it can inject relevance and meaning into the middle school curriculum. Offers an example of service learning with an environmental focus. Discusses the extended benefits of service learning, arguing that it provides meaningful learning contexts that support instruction in the formal classroom setting, and meets…

Describes the role of student-affairs professionals in building campus community through work with natural groups. Discusses challenges to the creation of campus community and highlights the Social Change Model of leadership development. Describes other campus community-building approaches and the role of student-affairs professionals. (Author/MKA)

Students (n=327) participating in an undergraduate community service learning course were surveyed at the beginning and end of a semester concerning their sense of power to impact the world. Contrary to expectation, they reported a lesser sense of power following the experience, with the effect strongest for particular students and settings,…

John Dewey's writing is explicit concerning the moral responsibilities of education in democracy. These moral dimensions provide a framework for identifying characteristics of good undergraduate education consistent with recent reports and the pedagogy of service learning. Articulation of these characteristics supports the value of service…

Describes a theory and practice for using service-learning for leadership development. The philosophical premises for merging service learning and leadership are drawn from educational theorists and from the best practices of experiential education and organizational development. From these philosophies is drawn a curriculum introducing students…