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This research was conducted to explore the impact of participation in an international education program on youth leadership development and how youth can more effectively engage in civic and community issues. The findings and recommendations offer international education programs, educators and youth workers strategies and best practices to support youth in their leadership development through service learning, an educational approach that combines civic engagement with learning activities. Service learning offers the opportunity to support and enhance the learning from international exchanges and educations programs. It can be applied towards youth in both academic and non-academic youth programs.

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This article examines how a group of seven post-graduate students, enrolled in an action research course, improved the structure and the content of the course by helping make it truly participatory and hands on. Participants expressed to the instructor their desire to learn action research by doing it. Action research became the pedagogy as the course itself evolved into an action research project.

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This article presents a case study of an exploration of gender roles in a second-grade classroom. The author discusses some of the discursive identities in which she and her students are positioned, and then uses the picture book William’s Doll to introduce a discussion of discursive gender identities with her students. She then asks students to step outside their discursive gender roles and to reflect on that experience. The data generated by this study point to new directions for talking with students about how they are positioned, and position themselves, in multiple and contradictory discourses.