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Perspective Transformation: Effects of a Service-Learning Tutoring Experience on Prospective Teachers.
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Malone, David; Jones, Brett D.; Stallings, D. T. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2002
Investigated the impact of a service learning experience on preservice teachers who received training in tutoring and tutored elementary students twice weekly over a semester. Data from participant essays and surveys indicated that respondents were significantly transformed by this experience, developing new perspectives in areas such as identity…
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Interpersonal Communication, Communication Learning, and Community Service: Course Outline, Readings, and Procedures.
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Conville, Richard L. – 1997
This paper presents a course outline, a list of required readings, and procedures for "Narrative, Community, and Communication," an honors class at the University of Southern Mississippi. The paper explains that the course focuses on volunteer community service--the idea being to place the student in a setting of genuine need to help…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperation, Course Descriptions, Helping Relationship
Students Teaching Students: A Model for Service and Study.
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Dillon, Peter W.; Van Riper, Robyn – Equity and Excellence in Education, 1993
Describes the community service learning (CSL) activities of the Students Teaching Students program at LEAD USA in Williamstown (Massachusetts), a program that lets students set their own learning goals and receive college credit for CSL. The Berkshire Energy Project through Williams College, one model of this program, is described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Students, Equal Education
Service Learning: A Summary of a Semester.
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Garman, Sarah – 1996
At Florida's Miami-Dade Community College, a service learning component was implemented in a reading course designed to prepare students to pass the statewide test required to obtain an associate degree. In the service learning option, students were required to perform 15 hours of tutoring in reading to at-risk elementary students or adults,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, Elementary School Students
Praxis II. Service-Learning Resources for University Students, Staff and Faculty.
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Meiland, Rachel, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed.; Callan, Mary Jo, Ed.; Smith, Rick, Ed. – 1993
This book gathers the comments of 27 contributors who are organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff on a University of Michigan sociology praxis course, which combines community service with seminar-related opportunities for reflection, relevant readings, discussion questions and activities, journal assignments and meaningful,…
Descriptors: After School Education, Cross Cultural Training, Drug Addiction, Experiential Learning
Praxis III. Voices in Dialogue.
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Howard, Jeffrey, Ed.; Waterhouse, Dave, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed. – 1995
The 27 chapters of this book provide presentations, conference transcripts, manuals, and reflections by organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff of service-learning sociology and education courses at the University of Michigan. The chapters are: "What National and Community Service Mean for Higher Education" (Goodwin…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Change Agents, Citizenship Education, Community Change