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Chandler, Ph.D.  \nKathy Buck, Ph.D.  \nDebra Ferguson, Ed.D.  \nAthens State University  \nThis article provides an overview of the use of service learning in the middle schools as a way to instill and foster civic responsibility and citizenship in students. In addition to a discussion about service learning’s major aspects, the authors provide concrete examples of how to implement service learning across the curriculum in middle school settings.  \nWhere Has Social Responsibility Gone? The mind is not individual but social, and learning is a by-product of social activities.  \n—John Dewey  \nThe idea of teaching social responsibility in schools is not new. From the beginnings of modern education in America some have believed that a primary mission in the school curricula was to train or educate effective citizens (Ross, 2006) . The strength of this idea in the American curriculum is one that ultimately depends on the political climate of the day, and usually finds itself expressed most clearly in the social studies curriculum (Stanley & Nelson, 1994) . In today’s educational political climate, with an overemphasis on standardization and testing, subjects like social studies are often relegated to a second tier of courses, situated firmly behind math, science, and reading. In fact some elementary schools have characterized the social studies as a subject that will be taught “if and when” the more important subjects are covered, in effect, squeezing the social studies out of existence (Zarrillo, 2008) . In secondary settings, social studies often falls prey to the same type of logic. Instead of being conceptualized as a subject whose main mission is to train effective citizens, social studies is characterized by memorization of dates, facts, and historical personalities (Loewen, 2007), training our future citizens not in how to make the world a better place, but rather how to memorize facts and give them back on an exam.  \nMany social studies educators and education professionals decry what they claim is a crisis of democracy in America (Steinberg, 2000) . With the changes that we face in the 21 st century—war, terrorism, shifting demographics, an unstable economy, poverty, global  \nwarming, shifts in political power on the international stage—the question begs to be asked: How best to educate our students for participation in our unique American democracy? The structure of social studies curriculum, as it currently exists, actually dates to a committee that met in 1916 to determine what subjects should be taught in secondary schools. The course offerings and subjects that were born at this 1916 meeting is the same scheme that we use today when we organize our social studies content (Evans, 2004) . This fact begs another question that looms large when training our students for participation in democracy: With all of the changes that have occurred in the world since 1916, shouldn’t the way we teach social studies also change? Social studies knowledge , as it is conceptualized in schools, does not adequately address the topic of social responsibility or social justice (Lisman, 1998). In fact, the erosion of interest in public service as a part of the school curricula may endanger the meaning and the concept of democracy in America and also the foundation of civil society (Dekker & Halman, 2003) .  \nUsing Service Learning to Teach Social Responsibility  \nA better way to teach our students to be effective, caring, and responsible citizens is by doing social studies (Danker, 2005) as opposed to passively listening to a teacher “talk” about social studies. The program is called service learning. Service learning is a form of experiential learning and teaching that achieves academic objectives while meeting needs that students identify in the community or school s","cbCaiod3cSa6hkHN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiod3cSa6hkHN","pdf",123327,"English","# Using Service Learning to Teach Social Responsibility\n## Components of Service Learning","[{\"question\":\"Why do the authors argue that social responsibility teaching in schools needs improvement?\",\"answer\":\"They contend that modern educational priorities and constrained social studies instruction reduce opportunities to train students as active, effective citizens rather than fact-memorizing test-takers.\"},{\"question\":\"What is service learning, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"Service learning is described as experiential learning that achieves academic objectives while meeting needs identified by students in the school or community context.\"},{\"question\":\"What elements make up service learning?\",\"answer\":\"The article identifies preparation, service, reflection, and celebration as core components that guide students from planning through community action and follow-up.\"}]","Reclaiming the Common Good in Education - Teaching Social Responsibility Through Service Learning | PDF",1792089305,13]