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Prepared by Renee Mende, Librarian, National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Print and Other Resources
Abernathy, T. and Obenchain, K. "Student Ownership of Service-Learning Projects: Including Ourselves in Our Community", Intervention in School and Clinic, v.37(2), 86-95, 2001.
Details a five-phase construction plan designed to guide students through the process of planning service learning projects, with students responsible for all steps and the teacher assuming the role of facilitator and guide. Service learning projects are encouraged as a means of including students with disabilities in their community while building academic skills and assuming personal responsibility.
Bright, E. "The Lamberton Project: A Secondary Program Using Experiential Learning", Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children, 1986.
Incorporates meaningful jobs within the school, on school grounds, and within the community. Components include a classroom store, practical reading lessons involving shopping lists and form completions, walking field trips, overnight trips, and activities using the telephone. The development of good work habits is stressed. Students are placed in community job training sites and their performance is monitored. Program involvement is specified in the Individualized Education Program. ERIC NO: ED269915
Brill, Cathy L. "The Effects of Participation in Service-Learning on Adolescents with Disabilities", Journal of Adolescence, v.17(4), 369-80, Aug 1994.
Examines the effects of active participation in service learning on adolescents with disabilities. Implications for school inclusion of students with disabilities are addressed and recommendations for areas of future study are made.
Frey, L. "Abundant Beautification: An Effective Service-Learning Project for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders", Teaching Exceptional Children, v.35(5), 66-75, May/June 2003.
Discusses the efficacy of service learning for students with emotional or behavioral disorders.
Gent, P. and Gurecka, L. "Service Learning: A Creative Strategy for Inclusive Classrooms", The Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, v.23(3), 261-271, Fall 1998.
Illustrates how service learning not only offers an alternative to traditional classroom teaching methods, but also a vehicle to provide inclusive community based instruction, to promote the development of communities, and to provide functional skills in training. This paper defines service learning and its components while also discussing applicability of service learning for all students.
Hampshire Educational Collaborative. "From You Can't to You Can: Service Learning for Students with Disabilities" [video], Fall 2002.
http://www.collaborative.org/CSL-DisabilitiesOutreachVideo.html
Short video presentation designed to inspire support for service learning projects that use an inclusion model, in which special education students and regular education students work side-by-side.
Ioele, M. & Dolan, A. "Teaching Courage: Service Learning at Pathway School", Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, v3(1), 20-23, Fall 1992.
Describes successful service club programs serving adolescent boys with social, emotional, and learning problems who reside at Philadelphia's Pathway School. Considers strengths and weaknesses; power and helplessness; worthiness and worthlessness; and giving and dependency. Provides examples from programs and their participants.
Karayan, S. and Gathercoal, P. "Service-Learning: Empowering Students with Special Needs", Academic Exchange, v.7(2), 151-157, Summer 2003.
Demonstrates that service learning pedagogy can be used to transform the traditional "deficit" model into a "reciprocal empowerment" model. Shows how service learning can provide opportunities for all students to become contributors, problem solvers, and partners in improving communities.
Maryland Student Service Alliance. "Special Education Service Learning Guide", 1993.
Introduces service learning as a method of teaching citizenship, instilling a service ethic, and helping students acquire skills. The fundamentals of an effective program -- preparation, action, reflection, and celebration -- are explained.
Muncie Southside High School. "I Can Work Program", Muncie, Indiana, 1999.
Available from the NSLC Library: http://www.servicelearning.org/wg_php/library/index.php?library_id=279
Includes project description, outline, and plan, and a list of the ways the project support service learning.
Muscott, H. "A Review and Analysis of Service-Learning Programs Involving Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders", Education and Treatment of Children, v.23(3), 346-368, August 2000.
Provides a review and critical analysis of 11 service learning programs with children and adolescents with E/BD.
Muscott, H. "An introduction to service learning for students with emotional and behavioral disorders: Answers to frequently asked questions", Beyond Behavior, v.10(3), 8-15, Spring 2001.
Acquaints practitioners with the practice of service learning as a method for enhancing the curriculum and meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of students with challenging behavior.
National Helper's Network. "Students with Special Needs Prove They Can Serve Too", Community Youth Roles, v.5(1), Winter 1998-1999.
Describes the efforts of New Jersey middle school teacher Peter Jennings, who has been integrating community service with special education for four years. Projects have included literacy, quilting, and intergenerational activities.
Winson, L. "Leadership for Empowerment Program Curriculum. An All Inclusive Service Learning Program for Junior High Youth", 1994.
From the Leadership for Empowerment Program, Ridgedale YMCA, 12301 Ridgedale Dr, Minnetonka MN 55305; Phone: 612-544-7708.
Curriculum encourages self-determination among youth of varying abilities to become full contributing members in their community. Each chapter is written with class to class instructions including, the goals, materials required, lesson, and reflection.
Yoder, D., Retish, E., & Wade, R. "Service Learning: Meeting Student and Community Needs", Teaching Exceptional Children, v.28, 14-18, 1996.
Program in which 12 seventh- and eighth-grade students with learning disabilities and/or culturally diverse backgrounds participated with nondisabled peers in service learning.
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