Support for K-12 Service-Learning Practice: A Brief Review of the Research
Support for K-12 Service-Learning Practice: A Brief Review of the Research
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支持 K-12 服务学习实践:研究简要回顾
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2002
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Shelley H. Billig
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Shelley H. Billig
Each year, more K-12 schools and districts are adopting serVice-learning as an educational reform strategy to help students achieve :important educational goals. The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that service-learning is being practiced in. more than one-third of all public schools in the United States and in about half of all public high schools. 1 The 1999 National Student .Service-Learning and Community Service Survey founq that rates of participation in service-leammg progressively increase across grade levels .2 Passion for the practice of service-learning sometim~s reaches evan_gelical proportions. However, by its nature, the practice · of service-learning varies widely, and even ardent practitioners are not always clear about the essence of the pedagogy or even whether they are implementing service-learning or community .service.3 In this article, research will be presented that clarifies the meaning of service-learning, why practitioners participate in service-learning, the student and school impacts reported as a result of participating in high-quality service-learning progiams, and potential ways to maximize impacts.