Author(s): Kristine Belisle and Elizabeth Sullivan
Publisher: Amnesty International-USA and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
Place of publication: New York and Cambridge, MA
Year of publication: 2007
ISBN/ISSN: -
Language(s): English
Keywords: lesson plan(s), manual, community leaders, teachers, formal education, higher education, informal education, secondary school, social studies, discrimination, environment, extreme poverty, human rights education, juvenile justice, non-discrimination, right to health

Service learning is a method whereby learners learn and develop through active participation in a service that is conducted in their communities. Usually it is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service programme and the community. Service learning fosters civic responsibility and is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the learners. The manual contains lessons and service-learning projects. The lesson plans are divided into five human rights topic areas: environment, poverty, discrimination, children's rights to education and health, and law and justice.

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