(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)
This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.
The book is comprised of two parts with 18 essays and an introduction. The essays reflect a range of experience.
For an in-depth view of how middle level schools have successfully implemented community service and service learning, turn to this insightful new resource. It features a comprehensive look at all disciplines, such as: math, science, social studies, language arts, and technology, from a broad perspective of contributors representing administrators, professors, and public school teachers. At a time when there is possibly more innovation taking place in the area of middle level education than at any other level, teachers and administrators are developing and implementing a vast array of new curricular and extra-curricular projects and programs designed to make learning exciting and relevant to the lives of young adolescents. Two of those programs are the focus of this new volume: social issues within the middle school curriculum, and student involvement in service. Middle School Educators. A Longwood Professional Book.