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Article: Service learning among students with EBD.(emotional and behavioral disturbance)
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Abstract
Students with emotional and behavioral disturbance require social skills instruction. One experiential learning method which encourages the development of social skills is service learning. Service learning projects can provide an opportunity for students to cooperatively work with others in a positive social arena, and through service, discover their own value and worth. In the course of the described service learning initiative, social and emotional learning in an authentic environment was encouraged for students with emotional and behavioral disturbance.
Background
As an experiential teaching and learning method, service learning ...