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Dooley, Caitlin McMunn; Mays, Lydia Criss – Teacher Educator, 2014
Service-learning provides community service as well as authentic, curriculum-driven learning experiences (Furco & Root, 2010) and has been an effective component of teacher education courses (GarcĂ­a, Arias, Murri, & Surna, 2010; Mitton-Kukner, Nelson, & Descrochers, 2010; Spencer, Cox-Petersen, & Crawford, 2005). With these…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Service Learning, Learning Experience
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Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Review of Research in Education, 2014
This chapter offers a situated account of English and vernacular literacy practices from a postcolonial perspective. Situated in ongoing endeavors in a variety of local contexts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, where the author was raised and schooled, this chapter calls attention to some key educational sites through which these policy-related…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries
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Crisco, Virginia – Composition Studies, 2009
As a service-learning teacher, the author advocates for both teachers' understanding of how activist literacy helps students to change as well as students' understanding of how it helps them to make change. Educators need to be aware of students' initial fears and be reminded of the risks they take to engage in these projects. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Service Learning, Activism
Pelham, Anabel, Ed.; Sills, Elizabeth, Ed.; Eisman, Gerald S., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
Starting from the premise that the health status, vulnerability to accidents and disease, and life spans are determined by the organization, delivery, and financing (or lack thereof) of health care, this book explores how educators and community caretakers teach the complex web of inter-connection between the micro level of individual health and…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health, Public Health, Health Promotion