RESOURCES ON SERVICE-LEARNING

Some Books Off My Shelf...

¥ THE KIDS GUIDE TO SOCAL ACTION,  
by Barbara A. Lewis is a wonderful source to help your students, k-12, turn creative thinking into positive aciton.  Contact Free Spirit Publishing, 400 First Ave., North, Suite 616, Minneapolis,
MN 55401 or call (612) 338-2068.
	
¥ GROWING HOPE: A SOURCEBOOK ON INTEGRATING YOUTH SERVICE INTO THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM.  
National Youth Leadership Council, 1910 West Country Road B, Roseville, MN 55113. (612) 631-3672. A national non-profit organization dedicated to developing youth leaders. Gives workshops, training, how-to guides and much more. Great source!

¥ COMBINING SERVICE AND LEARNING: A RESOURCE BOOK FOR COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE, 
Volume I & II, National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE)- this is the standard text which has a place on the bookshelf of every service-learning educator and administrator.  Contact NSEE at (919) 787-3263 or write to NSEE, 3509 Haworth Drive, Suite 207, Raleigh, NC 27609

¥ SOMETIMES A SHINING MOMENT: The Foxfire Experience., 
Wiggington, Eliot, - New York: Doubleday, 1985. Any educator, especially high school English teachers, will benefit from picking up this very readable book. Even FIU has a copy in its library. Take spcial note of pages 308-319 which deals with community service.

¥ THE GIRAFFE PROJECT HANDBOOK., and Standing Tall, 
a resource book of service-learning lessons plans for K-5 and 6-9 and 9-12 graders. The Giraffe Project., 197  Second Street, PO Box 759. Langley, Whidbey Island, WA 98260. (206) 221-7989 or Call Jean Gazinier, Ed. Dir. at (206) 221-0757.  Excellent stuff!

¥ PHI DELTA KAPPAN, 
June 1991 issue is dedicated to youth service. Write to Phi Delta Kappa, International Headquaters. 8th and Union. P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789 or call (812) 339-1156.

¥ HOW CAN I HELP, 
by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman, Alfred A. Knopf, INc., New York, 1985.

¥ COMPASSION IN ACTION, 
by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, 1993- Full of inspirational stories about helping, who helps, and why they do it.

¥ THE CALL OF SERVICE: A Witness to Idealism, 
by Robert Coles, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1993. Robert Coles is the autor of more than fifty books including the Inner Life of Chidlren series, the Children of Crisis series, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, the best-selling The Spiritual Life of Children. He teaches at Harvard.

¥ THE CALL OF STORIES: TEACHING AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION, 
by Robert Coles, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991
A must for any language arts or English teacher from middle school to graduate school interested in paring literature with service.

¥ 50 WAYS TO HELP YOUR COMMUNITY: A Handbook for Change, 
by Steve Fiffter and Sharon Sloan Fiffer, Doubleday Purlbisher, 1994. Short stories of individuals and groups who are making a real difference through action.