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Lashley, Judith A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the question of what impact opportunities for service had on early adolescents. I also hoped to discover what types of service might inspire critical, caring thought and action. Four principal implications emerged from this inquiry. For service to inspire caring, it should be practiced and personally…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Early Adolescents, Caring, Relevance (Education)
Acuna, Kym – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the High Tec Middle School teachers' and administrators' knowledge of the service learning model upon which the school's service learning program has been based, their views regarding their role in student character formation through service learning, and the teachers' feelings of ownership regarding the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Middle School Teachers, Administrators
Parker, Jaime D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many complex problems affect the lives of our citizens, including our children. A particularly important problem is a lack of a sense of community and connectedness (Belenky, et. al, 1986; Bellah, et. al, 1985; Dewey, 1938; Houser & Kuzmic, 2001; Palmer, 1998). There is a feeling among many that we are no longer connected to something larger…
Descriptors: Caring, Constructivism (Learning), Academic Education, Service Learning
Waite, Paul Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork, including more than 65 in-depth interviews with Chinese university students and higher education administrators, this study examines the roots of an emerging community service learning movement in mainland China. The dissertation focuses on a case study of a pioneering Chinese Party State-sponsored…
Descriptors: Caring, Community Development, Social Control, Service Learning