Reports college students' perceptions of service learning, noting that it helps them learn course content, and heightens their sense of citizenship, with the course-content effect intensified for "repeat" service-learning participants. Shows students evenly split as to whether service activities made them more motivated to attend class and to…

Describes an externally funded program that enabled twelve urban elementary schools to expand community outreach by hiring community residents and a program coordinator who worked with service agencies and teachers to develop a wide variety of activities catering to students and neighborhood members. One school's program is profiled. (Author/MSE)

Describes Academic Service-Learning (AS-L), in which classroom content is infused into a community-service experience. Describes a successful AS-L project in a business-communication class. Notes that its greatest strengths are students' tying theory into actual application of principles, student passion for the work, faculty enthusiasm for the…

Explains the importance of caring in teaching. Presents ways that service learning can be used to strengthen the caring skills of future teachers. Offers reflections from two teacher education students on their service learning. Discusses service learning as a transforming process. (SR)

This study evaluated nondisabled high school students' attitudinal change toward students with severe disabilities through inclusion of special-education students in two service-learning projects, one in which disabled students contributed to the project and one in which they received the service. Findings indicated that the equal-participation…

Relates the exploration and incorporation of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory (MI) into classroom practices. States that service-learning projects provide wonderful opportunities to put into practice the various types of intelligences, allowing students to utilize their best learning strategies to access the content area of the…

Discusses the trend toward more civic education as exemplified by the increasing number of college courses which combine academic study and community activism. Considers roots of the movement, education versus community needs, political aspects, race and class issues, and tenure concerns of faculty. Notes lasting impact of such programs as the…

Argues teachers must learn how to conceptualize the connections between the academy and society in ways that student, administrators, and teachers find convincing. Provides practical as well as theoretical justification for teaching public-discourse writing in a first-year composition course. Discusses several service learning projects produced by…

Discusses the prevalence of service learning, growing public support, definitions, quality standards, and salutary research evidence. Service learning positively influences students' personal and interpersonal development, lifestyle choices, appreciation for cultural diversity, sense of civic and social responsibility, motivation, attendance,…

Discussion of service learning for gifted adolescents offers a service learning typology based on degrees of student involvement and reviews the research findings on service learning. Focus group interviews with three gifted adolescent participants highlighted the importance of service learning to them and identified the following themes:…

Describes a six-week summer program for disadvantaged college-bound students in which students created and wrote the content for a health education brochure as part of a workshop which integrated basic reading. writing, science, and mathematics. The brochure was then used by the students in a community service learning activity. Evaluation…

Discusses the advantages of international service learning programs in developing students' language and cross-cultural communication skills, as well as their concept of the world as an interdependent system. Notes characteristics and outcomes of successful international service learning programs, such as the program at the University of North…

Discusses two models of intercultural learning with service learning components, illustrating them by two case studies at Hartwick College (New York): a first-year seminar and upper-level course in Chiapas, Mexico, and the Junior Jamaica Nursing Program. Considers ethical, intellectual, interpersonal, logistical, institutional, and safety issues.…

A graduate of St. Mary's College of Maryland recounts her experience on two of the college's service learning trips, one to Guatemala and one to the Gambia. She reports that the international service learning experience had a great impact on her in the areas of career choice, cultural understanding, and personal reflection. (DB)

Describes two community-service programs, one for prisoners and one for women with infant children at a residential addiction treatment center, developed at Georgetown University (District of Columbia). Considers principles of service learning, such as connectivity and values for participants, despite practical and bureaucratic programmatic…