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James "Jim" Kielsmeier is founder and President/CEO of the National Youth Leadership Council, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also founded the Center for Experiential Education and Service-Learning at the University of Minnesota, where he is also an Adjunct Professor. Kielsmeier helped initiate the nonprofit African Reconciliation and Development Corps International and led their first project in Somalia (1993–94) during the civil war. ==Biography== Jim Kielsmeier has committed his life to transforming the roles of young people in society — building youth-adult partnerships that help young people move from recipients of information to valuable, contributing members of a democratic society. In the process, he has interwoven concepts of national service, experiential learning and asset-based youth development to pioneer the educational approach known as service-learning. This practice has benefited countless young people who haven’t responded to traditional educational models and have not been recognized as contributors, including many from under-resourced communities. Kielsmeier work is rooted in his time as a youth worker in Harlem, and then as a U.S. Army Infantry platoon leader and community relations officer in Korea during the 1960s, where he saw firsthand that the potential for life and learning were not equal for all. In Korea, he developed a program placing GIs as tutors in schools, an approach that not only had educational benefits but also improved relationships between GIs and the communities in which they were stationed. This experience fed his ongoing passion for combining community service and education. A former middle and high school teacher and Outward Bound instructor, Kielsmeier founded the National Youth Leadership Council in 1983, initially based at the University of Minnesota. Having developed a network of youth leadership training camps, he recognized that the enthusiasm of the students as they left the programs was not equaled in their home schools, teachers, and communities. So he expanded the organization and conceptual model to reach a wider education audience, defining for the first time service-learning as a program model shared by National Service, youth development, and education reform. Today NYLC provides valuable program development, research, curriculum, and professional development resources to educators, youth, administrators and policy-makers, culminating in an annual conference attended by more than 2,500 adults and youth from every state and many countries. Kielsmeier also plays a key role in convening national and international research groups seeking to better understand and quantify the beneficial impact service-learning has on academic achievement, youth development, and civic engagement. And NYLC continues to develop model youth programs, expanding into new areas such as HIV/AIDS prevention, peer-led teen driver safety initiatives, and strategies for addressing the achievement gap. A perennial advocate for positive youth development — beyond the scope of specific programs — Kielsmeier has also been engaged in the design and implementation of comprehensive state and federal youth service and service-learning models. He has advised three Minnesota governors, helped U.S. Senators Dave Durenberger and Paul Wellstone write the 1990 and 1993 National and Community Service Act, advised the Clinton and Obama Administrations’ transition teams, and testified before the Minnesota House and Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. Kielsmeier also helped initiate the nonprofit African Reconciliation and Development Corps International, and led its first project to build schools in Somalia during the civil war in 1993. A widely traveled speaker and author, he is interested in the international applications of service-learning, and has spoken recently in Qatar, Sarajevo, and London. As a member of the Board for the newly organized Bilingual Christian University of Congo, he is working with faculty on grounding the school in service-learning. He continues to explore service-learning’s potential as a “cultural commons” bridging historic racial, ethnic, and political divides — a concept that has been well received by both the Peace Corps and Amnesty International, who now use service-learning as an instructional strategy. Currently, Kielsmeier is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. He earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of Colorado, a master’s in international relations from American University in Washington, D.C., and a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Concordia University, St. Paul in Saint Paul. He is married to Rev. Deborah Eng Kielsmeier and is the father of three grown daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Kielsmeier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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