TY - JOUR
T1 - Student voice in the elementary years
T2 - Fostering youth-adult partnerships in elementary service-learning
AU - Serriere, Stephanie C.
AU - Mitra, Dana
AU - Reed, Katherine
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium of The Pennsylvania State University for the grant that supports this research and their research team of undergraduate and graduate students for their time and dedication.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Service-learning is promoted widely by professional organizations (NCSS, 2001), but often with little reflection on the nature of meaningful student participation and the impact of teacher leadership styles. The authors studied mixed-age "small school" advisory groups involved in service-learning at one elementary school; observational, interview, and focus group data were collected. They present three case studies that represent various leadership typologies of elementary service-learning: The Catalyst, The Synthesizer, and The Commander. The authors then map these leaders' priorities onto a Youth Adult Partnership (YAP) continuum to suggest how student voice, a common component of successful service-learning, might occur in the elementary years.
AB - Service-learning is promoted widely by professional organizations (NCSS, 2001), but often with little reflection on the nature of meaningful student participation and the impact of teacher leadership styles. The authors studied mixed-age "small school" advisory groups involved in service-learning at one elementary school; observational, interview, and focus group data were collected. They present three case studies that represent various leadership typologies of elementary service-learning: The Catalyst, The Synthesizer, and The Commander. The authors then map these leaders' priorities onto a Youth Adult Partnership (YAP) continuum to suggest how student voice, a common component of successful service-learning, might occur in the elementary years.
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U2 - 10.1080/00933104.2011.10473466
DO - 10.1080/00933104.2011.10473466
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863740035
SN - 0093-3104
VL - 39
SP - 541
EP - 575
JO - Theory and Research in Social Education
JF - Theory and Research in Social Education
IS - 4
ER -