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Universities, Service Learning and the Rural Context: Seeing Rural People and Places for What They Are.
Lapping, Mark B. – Small Town, 1999
Increasingly, colleges and universities are engaging in service learning, but for service learning to be successful in rural communities, students and faculty must look beyond the stereotypes of rural life and see rural people and places for what they are. Rural stereotypes are discussed, and a "stay option" is identified as a common…
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