Title: Social Issues and Service at the Middle Level.
Abstract: Introduction, Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen. I. SOCIAL ISSUES. 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 and William G. Wraga. 4. The Homeless an Issue-Based Interdisciplinary Unit in an Eighth Grade Class, Belinda Y. Louie, Douglas H. Louie and Margaret Heras. 5. Making Play, 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 Multi-Disciplinary Social Issues Approach for Middle Schools, Ronald A. Banaszak, H. Michael Hartoonian, and James S. Leming. 9. Future Problem Solving: Preparing Middle School Students to Solve Community Problems, Richard L. Kurtzberg and Kristin Faughnan. II. SERVICE. 10. Alienation or Engagement? Service Learning May Be an Answer, Joan Schine and Alice Halsted. 11. Service-Learning: A Catalyst for Social Action and School Change at the Middle Level, Wokie Weah and Madeleine Wegner. 12. The Community as Classroom: Service Learning at the Louis Armstrong Middle School, Ivy Diton and Mary Ellen Levin. 13. Incorporating Service Learning into the School Day, Julie Ayers and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. 14. Science-Technology-Society as an Approach to Attaining Student Involvement in Community Action Projects, Curt Jeffryes, Robert E. Yager, and Janice Conover. 15. Calling Student to Action: How Wayland Middle School Puts Theory Into Practice, Stephen Feinberg, Richard Schaye, and David Summergrad. 16. Our Forest, Their Forest - A Program Which Stimulates Long-Term Learning and Community Action, Patricia McFarlane Soto, John H. Parker, and George E. O'Brien. 17. Every Step Counts: Service and Social Responsibility, Larry Dieringer and Esther Weisman Kattef. 18. The Letter That Never Arrived: The Evolution of a Social Concerns Program in a Middle School, Robyn L. Morgan and Robert W. Moderhak.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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