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• Title: Outcomes for Community Partners in an Unmediated Service-Learning Program.
• Author : Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
• Release Date : January 22, 2003
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 222 KB

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Program Overview In summer 2000 Pitzer College implemented a Spanish language program connecting the classroom with a community of native speakers in Ontario, California, a city of 163,000 east of Los Angeles with a rapidly growing Latino population. The development of this partnership had started in September 1999 when a student assistant, rooted in the cultures of the area, and I began to search for the right community setting for the program. I interviewed many residents of several Ontario neighborhoods as potential promotoras (female heads of households who were to assist us by acting as "promoters" of Spanish language and culture) and met with staff members of several community organizations. In April 2000--for a number of reasons including their deep interest in the program, exclusive use of Spanish in the household, and strong family life--we selected promotoras from the pool of parents who were active in a primary school located in a 3.5 square mile area known as the Sultana Corridor. We proceeded to design the program's operation and curriculum with the help of this group of individuals who were not represented by, and did not represent any, official community organization. A program based on direct interaction with individuals rather than mediated by a social service organization has had both advantages and disadvantages, many of which will be touched on in this article.

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