Voices of Service and Learning: Preservice Teachers Writing with Adolescents Labeled "At Risk".

From: Academic Exchange Quarterly | Date: December 22, 2000| Author: Vadeboncoeur, Jennifer A.; Torres, Myriam N.; Swingle, David; Anesi, Jamie | Copyright information

Introduction

The voices composing this article reflect two significant and related issues in education: the first surfacing in teacher education and the other surfacing in the education of students labeled "at risk." The first issue is simply the following: Although teacher education institutions are increasingly adopting service-learning, research on service-learning as a pedagogical tool with preservice teachers is limited. Current research on service-learning in teach...

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