Community Service Learning or Shared Histories

Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum

Author: Rahima Carol Wad

Service-learning, the integration of community service with academic course work, is a promising strategy for enhancing learning and developing active democratic citizens. This book responds to the many recent calls for youth involvement in service as part of the public school curriculum. While service- learning holds many benefits for students, teachers, and communities, there are also many challenges to effectively incorporatie it into the curriculum.

Each of the book's four parts provides a different scope and purpose. Part 1 addresses the components of quality service-learning programs; Part 2 introduces diverse models of service-learning programs at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; Part 3 allows students, agency members, and administrators to tell their own stories of service-learning involvement, to discuss issues with other individuals who share their roles, and to offer recommendations for effective action; and Part 4 asks readers to consider the future of service-learning in public schooling.

Community Service-Learning is a comprehensive resource that will be valuable for all those involved with K-12 service-learning programs: administrators, classroom teachers, students, program coordinators, and university teacher education programs.

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Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue

Author: Paul Scham

There is no single history of the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Israeli historical narrative speaks of Zionism as the Jewish national movement, of building a refuge from persecution, and of national regeneration. The Palestinian narrative speaks of invasion, expulsion, and oppression. Its no wonder peace remains elusive. This volume attempts to present both histories with parallel narratives of key points in the 19th and 20th centuries to 1948. The histories are presented by fourteen Israeli and Palestinian experts, joined by other historians, journalists, and activists, who then discuss the differences and similarities between their accounts. By creating an appreciation, understanding, and respect for the "other," the first steps can be made to foster a shared history of a shared land. The reader has the opportunity to witness first hand a respectful confrontation between the competing versions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Table of Contents:

1	Napoleon to Allenby : processes of change in Palestine, 1800-1918	13
	Continuity and change in Palestine : the late-Ottoman period, 1856-1918	23
	Discussion 1	30
2	The beginnings of Jewish settlement and Zionism, to World War I	62
	The prehistory of Palestinian nationalism	68
	Discussion 2	75
3	The Palestinian national movement, 1919-1939	92
	Zionist diplomacy, 1914-1939	101
	Discussion 3	109
4	The Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, and the shaping of Israeli society	135
	The Holocaust in the Palestinian perspective	148
	Discussion 4	154
5	The UN resolution of 1948 : why wasn't it implemented?	177
	The paradox of the UN 1947 partition plan	182
	Discussion 5	188
6	Israeli historiography of the 1948 War	205
	The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947-48	220
	Discussion	228
7	Holiness and conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	251
	Jerusalem refugees and property claims since the 1948 War	257
	Discussion	262