"Support for K-12 Service-Learning Practice: A Brief Review of the Rese" by Shelley Billig
 

Authors

Shelley Billig

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2002

Publication Title

educational HORIZONS

First Page

184

Last Page

189

Abstract

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. The 1999 National Student. Service-Learning and Community Service Survey found that rates of participation in service-learning progressively increase across grade levels. Passion for the practice of service-learning sometimes reaches evangelical 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.

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