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Social Issues and Service at the Middle Level (Paperback)
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Social Issues and Service at the Middle Level (Paperback)
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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. Part 1, ""Social Issues,"" includes: (1)
""Social Issues in the Middle School Curriculum: Retrospect and
Prospect"" (James A. Beane); (2) ""Challenging Barriers: A Unit in
Developing an Awareness and Appreciation for Differences in
Individuals with Physical and Mental Challenges"" (Pauline S.
Chandler); (3) ""Implementing an Interdisciplinary Unit on the
Holocaust"" (Regina Townsend; William G. Wraga); (4) ""The
Homeless: An Issue-Based Interdisciplinary Unit in an Eighth-Grade
Class"" (Belinda Y. Louie; Douglas H. Louie; Margaret Heras); (5)
""Making Plays, Making Meaning, Making Change"" (Kathy Greeley);
(6) ""Teleconversing about Community Concerns and Social Issues""
(Judith H. Vesel); (7) ""Using Telecommunications to Nurture the
Global Village"" (Dell Salza); (8) ""New Horizons for Civic
Education: A Multidisciplinary Social Issues Approach for Middle
Schools"" (Ronald A. Banaszak; H. Michael Hartoonian; James S.
Leming); and (9) ""Future Problem Solving: Preparing Middle School
Students to Solve Community Problems"" (Richard L. Kurtzberg;
Kristin Faughnan). Part 2, ""Service,"" contains: (1) ""Alienation
or Engagement? Service Learning May Be an Answer"" (Joan Schine;
Alice Halsted); (2) ""Service Learning: A Catalyst for Social
Action and School Change at the Middle Level"" (Wokie Weah;
Madeleine Wegner); (3) ""The Community as Classroom: Service
Learning at the Lewis Armstrong Middle School"" (Ivy Diton; Mary
Ellen Levin); (4) ""Incorporating Service Learning into the School
Day"" (Julie Ayers; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend); (5)
""Science-Technology-Society: An Approach to Attaining Student
Involvement in Community Action Projects"" (Curt Jeffryes; Robert
E. Yager; Janice Conover); (6) ""Calling Students to Action: How
Wayland Middle School Puts Theory into Practice"" (Stephen
Feinberg; Richard Schaye; David Summergrad); (7) ""Our Forest,
Their Forest: A Program That Stimulates Long-Term Learning and
Community Action"" (Patricia McFarlane Soto; John H. Parker; George
E. O'Brien); (8) ""Every Step Counts: Service and Social
Responsibility"" (Larry Dieringer; Esther Weisman Kattef); and (9)
""The Letter that Never Arrived: The Evolution of a Social Concerns
Program in a Middle School"" (Robyn L. Morgan; Robert W. Moderhak).
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