This annotated bibliography is designed to help individuals investigate some of the essential literature about citizenship, service-learning, character education, and national service. Each category in the bibliography includes references that cover levels of theory and practice ranging from introductory to advanced. While the lists are not…

Service-learning is a curriculum-based form of community service that integrates classroom instruction and reflection with hands-on service experiences. While the number of schools organizing service-learning activities has not yet surpassed the large percentage of K-12 institutions that simply offer or organize community service, the pedagogy has…

Explores concepts and principles of service learning. Presents guidelines for programs and the connection between service learning and educational reform. Proposes that service learning can improve articulation between K-12 and community schools. (SK)

The Minnesota Compact is a coalition of 45 college and university presidents seeking to encourage student involvement in community and public service and strengthen the effects of that service on communities and students. Service-learning efforts are most successful when certain elements are present: collaborative relationships with community…

Discusses a service learning research methods project to engage students in a sociology course. Parsed in four sections: (1) reviews service learning/research and its effect on students and community; (2) provides a detailed project description; (3) discusses student contributions to the organization served; and (4) examines evaluation methods of…

Described the integration of a service-learning elective into a preexisting course at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in which there was little room to maneuver in an already crowded curriculum, and presented some preliminary evaluation findings based on reports on 206 participating students and 254 who did not participate in the…

Uses a quasi-experimental design in a case study outlining the application of specific techniques to implement a service-learning component in an introductory sociology college course. Reports that results supported the study's claims that service learning may be an efficient method of improving efficacy of these courses. (Author/KDR)

This article details how one student's passion for teaching and interest in the Civil Rights Movement led to the creation of a unique learning community on wheels. (GCP)

Focuses on incorporation of service learning into English-as-a-Second-Language learning. Discusses the effects of service learning, service learning and ESOL, recent uses of service learning in ESOL contexts, a pilot ESOL service learning course at a university, community service activities, and adaptations for ESOL programs in…

Introduces a collection of essays by four educators who have dealt extensively with issues of race and its various manifestations. The four essays address fundamental issues about how race as a social reality has shaped, and continues to shape, the lives of people in the United States. Through the lenses of different academic disciplines, the…

Explores the possibility of creating an integrated, intentional approach to service learning and civic engagement in higher education, rather than the "helter-skelter" approach that is currently common. Discusses different faces/phases of academic citizenship. (EV)

In working with urban poverty, the director of Heads Up-DC discusses his experience in providing services to public school students through involving college students as teachers and mentors. (EV)

A service learning partnership between Nebraska Methodist College and Catholic Charities was grounded in social justice and the goals of the federal Healthy People 2010 initiative. Nursing students' projects focused on services for members of the community who are impoverished and in need. (SK)

The limited existing research on service learning suggests that it connects young people to communities and gives them rich learning experiences that enhance academics and career choices. Research on long-term effects is needed. (JOW)

Discusses the specific and complex outcomes of community service participation in higher education. Argues that support for community service learning is likely to wane if long-standing narrow beliefs about cognition are not challenged; educators need to think more holistically about what constitutes an educated person. (Contains 22 references.)…