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What is Near Peer Service-Learning Program

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on Service-Learning Initiatives in Teacher Education Programs
This program was a federally-funded grant obtained by one institution in Georgia, which then granted sub awards. The goal of the program was to increase the number of underrepresented students in Georgia successfully entering and completing college. The particular sub award granted in this program was written by the former dean of the institution represented in the paper and directed by one of the authors of the paper, who eventually took on the grant as the principal investigator. The program involved a partnership between the institution represented in the paper and one local high school and specifically focused on mentoring as the prime vehicle for support.
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Social Foundations of Education and Service-Based Field Experiences: Critical Foundations for Socially Just Educators
Sheri Carmel Hardee (University of North Georgia, USA) and Kelly Louise McFaden (University of North Georgia, USA)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4041-0.ch003
Abstract
This chapter highlights one social foundations of education program's initiative to develop specialized service-based projects on which each course's field experience, readings, and assignments would center. Utilizing both a justice-oriented and intersectional foundation, professors developed projects meant to engage the program's mostly white and female students in more critical and meaningful experiences that would help pre-service educators reflect on power, privilege, and oppression and their roles in this process. The authors focus on two example projects for this chapter with a goal of examining successes and difficulties experienced in developing such projects, including the challenge of maintaining strong community partnerships. These two case studies are not meant to provide generalized experiences, but the authors hope that sharing the development, implementation, and outcomes can help other programs create field experiences for pre-service educators that will teach pre-service educators the importance of safe yet critical classroom spaces.
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