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Doing diversity through service learning.
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As a significant part of the college course Human Relations in a Multicultural Society, pre-service teachers are engaged in service learning and reflection as two of the primary methods to develop cultural awareness and appreciation, human relations skills, and positive dispositions about diverse groups in society. Eleven oppressed groups in U.S. society are the focus of students' study, experience in the community, and reflection. Education students "do" diversity through eighteen contact hours of service learning with a group that is outside their comfort zone. Specific planned objectives are addressed throughout the service learning experience. At the ...
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- Magazine article from: Academic Exchange Quarterly Anderson, Jeffrey B. Erickson, Joseph A. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...understanding of the status of service-learning in teacher education programs. Results indicate that service-learning is introduced to preservice...their teacher candidates to use service-learning as a teaching method. Although...
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- Magazine article from: Roeper Review Froehle, Thomas C. April 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Service-learning: empowering students with special needs.
- Magazine article from: Academic Exchange Quarterly Karayan, Silva Gathercoal, Paul June 22, 2003 700+ words
...recipients and beneficiaries of service-learning projects. This article demonstrates that service-learning pedagogy can be used to transform...and deliberately structuring the service-learning environment educators can provide...