Gary Armstrong, assistant principal, is faced with a delicate situation. The elementary school recently enrolled a transgender student, and the principal, Amy Lamar, is resistant to considering the student's unique needs. This case was developed for use in a leadership course. Instructors can use the case to encourage dialogue around legal…

Describes a model of Team-Based Community Work being developed at Colgate University and relates it to service-learning. Emphasizes the importance of sustained reflective dialogue, a focus on problem solving, team work, partnering with difference, and training with basic skills of organizing and community building in a service-learning project.…

Learning the values of respect for the individual, fairness, responsible exercise of freedom, and belief in each person's ability to understand democracy is possible. Students should learn to practice four communication habits: the habit of search (teaching students that they are accountable and responsible for what they say); the habit of justice…

This viewer's guide is designed to encourage discussion about the issues covered in the four-part public television series "Liberty & Limits: 'The Federalist' Idea 200 Years Later" that aired during 1997. The series examines whether the current U.S. political system still matches the vision of its founders. The guide offers: an essay…

This document consists of the documentation and question sheets that accompany an educational computer program available on diskette. This product is an oral review of all the questions asked on the Immigration and Naturalization Service oral test for U.S. citizenship. Student answers are recorded by the computer. The teacher reviews answers…

This curriculum guide is intended to provide practical, easy-to-use applications for the widest range of faculty who would like to develop their students' citizenship skills by integrating civic responsibility concepts and practices into their college courses. The authors recognize that community college faculty teach courses that reflect varying…

Asserts that social studies teacher educators can develop future teachers' commitment to student service learning. Describes and reports on a study of a community service-learning program for elementary preservice social studies teachers. (CFR)

The fact that curriculum content represents interpretations and values linked to certain groups rather gives it a potential for enhancing interests and of being a political tool. General questions to help students see that issues represent conflicting value positions held by interest groups are included. (RM)

Discusses the different definitions and conceptualizations of global education, stating that much of the traditional curriculum of international studies can be reinterpreted to prepare students to participate in an interdependent society. Gives nine objectives for global education, and delineates the issues surrounding current conceptions of…

Reviews the different contributions the study of the U. S. Constitution can make to public administration courses. Maintains that such study may force students to a deeper appreciation of the United States political community, ultimately strengthening their thinking on future practical problems in public administration. (JDH)

Seven model curriculum syllabi, designed by teachers for use in teacher education classes, feature the use of primary sources and informed personal judgement in teaching humanities based citizenship education courses. "Education and the Changing Meaning of American Citizenship" (B. McClellan) explores how and to what degree U.S. educators have…

Describes a community service project in which prospective teachers planned activities and performed community services to test assumptions about the need for relevance and real-world applications in social studies education. Includes student observations on the project and provides suggestions for the implementation of the service project idea.…

Teachers and teacher educators must become more aware of the civics lessons instilled by the media and must learn to teach students how to use, rather than be used by, the media "curriculum." Four strategies for integrating media civic education into the teacher education curriculum are outlined. (PP)

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…

Presents pedagogical resources for faculty who teach service-learning courses. Stresses that the interplay of dialogue, critical inquiry, and surprises in these courses allows students to understand how they can shape and redefine their roles in society, and how society can change as a result of their involvement. (Contains 13 references.) (CAK)