Kemmis contends that revitalized citizen leadership requires specific skills, behavior patterns, and a place to learn and practice them. The Challenges and Rewards of Empowering Youth in Schools. It is hoped that such an approach will allow educators to tap into the networks of peer influence that exist among adolescents and to realize the goal of citizenship education. Such programs, traditionally found in business schools, are emerging in diverse college departments and in community colleges. Corporate funding is increasing.
Community service is a common program component.
Service Learning in the Middle Grades. The first chapter of the present report discusses the benefits that accrue to society and early adolescents when early adolescents engage in community service. The review process that was used to select model programs for case studies is discussed in the second chapter. In the fourth chapter, the case studies are analyzed in terms of appropriate roles for early adolescents in community service, and the common elements of, and obstacles faced by, the programs. The fifth chapter offers a series of recommendations for encouraging adolescent participation in community service and notes the establishment of the National Center for Service Learning in Early Adolescence.