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Kielsmeier, James C. – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1998
Describes development of the U.S. service-learning movement: early roots; American Youth Foundation and National Youth Leadership Council leadership camps for youth, which combined adventure, performing arts, and social justice themes; the campaign to implement an integrated statewide youth-service model in Minnesota; creation of AmeriCorps; and…
Descriptors: Camping, Citizenship, Federal Programs, Organizations (Groups)
Download full textPittsburgh Univ., PA. School of Education. – 1996
Service learning links community service and volunteerism with academic learning. It is a collaborative effort that brings schools, community-based organizations, parents, and other community members together in a common enterprise of individual and community growth. Service learning is based on a number of existing links between schools and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Citizenship Education, Community Organizations, Community Services
