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Fenzel, L. Mickey; Richardson, Kathy D. – Educational Planning, 2018
Adopting an asset-based and resilience-building framework, the present study examines the effects of out-of-school activities on advancing the academic achievement, leadership skills, and service orientation of youth of color placed at risk who attended one of over 60 independent urban middle schools that follow the NativityMiguel model of…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Academic Achievement
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Limor Goldner; Daphna Golan – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The current study identified factors contributing to the long-term perception of meaningful civic engagement in a sample of Israelis involved in extra-curricular civic-engagement programs as students. Using a qualitative research method supported by quantitative analyses, we found that five to 10 years after completing higher education, most…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Jews, Extracurricular Activities, Individual Development
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McKay-Jackson, Cassandra – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
The traditional teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic alone will not fully prepare students to lead with integrity, govern fairly, analyze problems, and work collectively with people different from themselves. Social emotional learning (SEL) has been described as one of the missing links in academic education, but a restrictive approach to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Service Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Robinson, Tony – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2000
Asserts that service learning proponents are divided over direct charity versus justice advocacy models, with many claiming a need for justice advocates to moderate their philosophy in order to secure long-term support. Claims that despite justice advocacy's trouble institutionalizing itself (e.g., Settlement House, Students for a Democratic…
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Citizen Participation, Dissent
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Boston, Bruce O. – Educational Leadership, 1999
After taking an environmental inventory of their community, seventh-graders in a Denver-area middle school decided to tackle the drinking water problem and fix it. The school is one of seven participating in Earth Force, an environmental and community-service-learning program based in Alexandria, Virginia. The program's progress and six-step…
Descriptors: Activism, Environmental Education, Grade 7, Hands on Science
ACTION, Washington, DC. National Center for Service - Learning. – 1979
A guide for college and university educators who manage service-learning programs, or programs that support student involvement in the community, is presented. A systematic approach to planning and managing service-learning programs is presented, management functions for supporting a service-learning system are identified, and ideas on…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Responsibility, College Students, Community Development