service learning articles (Kappan)

Phi Delta Kappan (May 2000) has a special section on service-learning. You
can access some articles online at:
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/ktoc.htm
To access the other articles you may need to check with your local 
librarian.

Have a good week! (And for those moms who are working on their special
weekend - have a happy mother's day.)   Ann

"A Time to Serve, a Time to Learn: Service-Learning and the Promise of
Democracy" by James C. Kielsmeier. (652-657) Students are playing an
important role in education: they are teaching as well as learning. As they
teach they are learning how their experience shape their future and how
they can help their peers. Kielsmeier introduces the special section on
service-learning. 

"Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning: The Evidence Builds" by
Shelley H. Billig. (658-664) This articles is like an annotated
bibliography of research on service-learning. Findings are listed, research
is cited, and Billig puts the research in perspective.

"Service-Learning and Reform in the Philadelphia Public Schools" by David
Hornbeck. (665) Philadelphia has made service-learning an integral part of
its instructional reforms. Hornbeck describes an ambitious program that
spans all grade levels and is tied to promotion and graduation requirements.

"Building a Framework for Service-Learning: The South Carolina Experience"
by Inez M. Tenenbaum. (666-669) South Carolina's state school chief
explains how her state has linked service-learning to teacher education,
strategic planning in schools, school-to-work, and educational 
accountability.

"The Reaffirmation of The Declaration of Principles" by Richard W. Riley
and Harris Wofford. (670-672) During the five years since they were first
formulated, the six principles of service-learning have been put into
practice in numerous initiatives throughout the country. The authors review
the principles and give examples of a wide variety of projects and programs
that reflect each one of them.

"Service-Learning and Multicultural/Multiethnic perspectives: From
Diversity to Equity" by Wokie Weah, Verna Cornelia Simmons, and McClellan
Hall. (673-675) The missionary ideology that currently underlies much of
the service-learning movement is mostly the result of a series of decisions
intended to do good things for others, and so the movement does not
directly acknowledge what those others, particularly communities of color,
might have to offer. It is time to change that.

"Free to Choose Service-Learning" by Michael P. Garber and Justin A. Heet.
(676-677) Service-learning, by its activist nature, can easily become
politicized. Thus, it should exist only in schools that are freely chosen
by the families of students who attend them.

"Service-Learning Leadership Development for Youths" by Joy Des Marais,
Yuoa Yang, and Farid Farzanehkia. (678-680) Service-learning without
intentional leadership development is trivial and shallow. And such
leadership development requires adults and young people to work
collaboratively in the design of service-learning. When that happens, the
outcome will be both profound learning and successful projects.

Ann Treacy, Librarian
Learn and Serve America
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse  -- http://umn.edu/~serve