Applications of Service-Learning in Trades and Vocational Programs

Community Service Learning and the Vocational Teacher
This is a collection of essays and articles from a conference sponsored by the Department of Vocational and Technical Education, University of Minnesota. Includes an executive summary of Shumer's work, Describing Service-Learning: A Delphi Study, Improving Secondary Vocational Education by Harry Silberman, School-based Work Experience by David Stern, Apprenticeship as a Paradigm for Learning by Sue Berryman, The Sleeping Giant of School Reform by Joe Nathan and Jim Kielsmeier, Resource Person Guide by David Jasper, and Starting a Community Service Learning Program: What Resources are Needed.

http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=3636


Need to Consider Service Learning in Developing Future Vocational Education Programs
The author affirms why service-learning should be combined with job training. Service-learning contextualizes the student's learning. It can provide the missing link for school-to-work transition at all levels of the educational ladder. Service-learning provides experience in planning, management, and responsibility that a student might not otherwise experience in a school-to-work setting.

http://www.servicelearning.org/library/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=3688


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