A time to serve, a time to learn: Service-learning and the promise of democracy

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 652-657

  Kielsmeier, James G ^a  

^a National Youth Leadership Council   (United States)

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2. See National Center for Education Statistics, Statistical Analysis Report: Student Participation in Community Service Activity (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997), p. 28.
3. National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics in Brief: Service-Learning and Community Service in K-12 Public Schools (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, September 1999);
4. and Fred M. Newmann and Robert A. Rutter, "A Profile of High School Community Service Programs," Educational Leadership, December 1985/January 1986, pp. 64-71.
5. Linda J. Sax et al., The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1999 (Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, 1999), Press Summary, p. 2.
6. Adam Clymer, "College Students Not Drawn to Politics," New York Times, 11 January 2000.
7. Youth Today: What Teens Tell Teens, Bridge to Next Century Survey (Atlanta, Ga.: Boys and Girls Clubs of America, February 2000), p. 11.
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9. and Richard J. Kraft, "Service-Learning: An Introduction to Its Theory, Practice, and Effects," Education and Urban Society, February 1996, pp. 131-35.
10. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, "National Service and Education for Citizenship," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1991, p. 772.
11. Sen. David Durenberger, "Service-Learning Act of 1993," Congressional Record, 30 March 1993.
12. Lori Lessner, "Most Young Adults Turned Off to Politics, Don't Bother to Vote," St. Paul Pioneer Press, 30 January 2000, p. 3-A.
13. Alan Melchior, "Impact on Youth and Communities," State Education Leader, Fall 1999, p. 6.
14. McClellan Hall, "Gadugi: A Model of Service-Learning for Native American Communities," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1991, pp. 754-57;
15. and Wokie Weah, Verna Cornelia Simmons, and McClellan Hall, "Service-Learning and Multicultural/Multi-ethnic Perspectives," page 673, this Kappan.
16. Olleye B. Conley, National Service-Learning Leader School Application, Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Huntsville, Ala., 3 February 2000, p. 2.
17. Sandra Montgomery and Deborah West, "The Alabama African American History Project," The Generator, Winter 2000, p. 9.
18. Conley, p. 3.
19. Interview with Olleye B. Conley, 28 February 2000.
20. Personal correspondence with Lin Benson, 25 February 2000.
21. Sheldon Berman, "Integrating Service-Learning with School Culture," Service-Learning Network, Constitutional Rights Foundation, Los Angeles, Calif., Spring 1999, pp. 1-5.
22. Essential Elements of Service-Learning (St. Paul: National Service-Learning Cooperative, National Youth Leadership Council, April 1998).
23. For information on Learning In Deed, see the sidebar "Service-Learning Resources," p. 656.
24. Robert Shumer, The Status of Service-Learning in the United States (St. Paul: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, University of Minnesota, 1999).
25. Essential Elements of Service-Learning.
26. Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, "The Roles of Youth in Society: A Reconceptualization," Educational Forum, Winter 1988, pp. 113-32.
27. Michelle Collay et al., Learning Circles: Creating Conditions for Professional Development (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 1998), pp. 31-61;
28. and Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Seabury Press, 1973).
29. National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics in Brief, p. 10.
30. Peter Scales and Dale A. Blyth, "Effects of Service-Learning on Youth: What We Know and What We Need to Know," The Generator, Winter 1997, pp. 6-9.
31. Harry C. Boyte and Nan Skelton, "The Legacy of Public Work: Educating for Citizenship," Educational Leadership, February 1997, pp. 12-17.