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  • Expanding Conceptions of Community and Civic Competence for a Multicultural Society
    Connects the concept of diversity to the symbiotic relationship between individuality and community in the United States. Maintains that cultural awareness is a valid and realistic response to global interdependence and changing demographics.
  • Leaders of Color as Catalysts for Community Building in a Multicultural Society
    Presents a vision of multicultural education as a validating and inclusive process for non-European ways of knowing. Classifies multicultural education as inclusionary, emancipatory, liberatory, critical, and transformative.
  • Maurice R. Robinson National Mini-Grant Program for K-12 Service Learning
    Briefly describes a service-learning grant program and provides examples of elementary, middle, and high school projects awarded grants in 1996. Projects included efforts to educate the community about river pollution, multicultural murals, and a school activities news show.
  • Peer Consultant Initiative Handbook. 1st Edition
    This handbook was developed for those selected as part of the Kellogg Peer Consultant Initiative which seeks to promote the inclusion of service-learning into core academic curricula. Consultants provide teacher education programs and technical support to those educators developing new programs or strengthening existing programs.
  • Peer Consultant Initiative Handbook. 1st Edition
    This handbook was developed for those selected as part of the Kellogg Peer Consultant Initiative which seeks to promote the inclusion of service-learning into core academic curricula. Consultants provide teacher education programs and technical support to those educators developing new programs or strengthening existing programs.
  • Service Learning for a Diverse Society: Research on Children, Youth, and Prejudice
    Reviews psychological and educational research on prejudice and intergroup relations to produce suggestions and guidelines for improving the combined educational goals of service learning and multicultural education. Recommends starting early, emphasizing critical thinking, connecting activities to appropriate stages of cognitive development, and employing role playing and cooperative learning.
  • Voices of Students in Multicultural Service-Learning Settings
    Journals of 30 college students of child development engaged in community-based service learning in multicultural settings revealed three themes.
  • Voices of Students in Multicultural Service-Learning Settings
    Journals of 30 college students of child development engaged in community-based service learning in multicultural settings revealed three themes. Students: (1) articulated their own approaches or philosophies regarding racial issues; (2) expressed concerns about specific multicultural or race-related incidents; and (3) discussed the resources they relied on to put their experiences into a larger perspective.