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Peer reviewedMendel-Reyes, Meta – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
As a pedagogy for citizenship, academic service learning offers students the opportunity to experience and reflect on how citizens organize to bring their communities and their country closer to democracy. The three-course Democracy Project at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) illustrates how this approach can be developed within a college…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Democratic Values
