Using service-learning activities for civic identity formation

This paper argues that mandatory service-learning (SL) activities need to be incorporated in the Georgian national curriculum of citizenship education for senior high school students, grades 10-12. The structure of the paper is as follows. After discussing the possible SL activities that needto be i...

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Main Author: Chankseliani, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Georgian Electronic Scientific Journals 2008
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Summary:This paper argues that mandatory service-learning (SL) activities need to be incorporated in the Georgian national curriculum of citizenship education for senior high school students, grades 10-12. The structure of the paper is as follows. After discussing the possible SL activities that needto be introduced to Georgian students, I pass on to the analysis of the objectives and a four-stage structure of the proposed SL activities. The paper also looks at the teacher’s role in SLas well as some of the problems that teachers may encounter.