1st Edition

Service-Learning and Social Justice Education Strengthening Justice-Oriented Community Based Models of Teaching and Learning

Edited By Dan Butin Copyright 2008
96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

96 Pages
by Routledge

This volume offers a crucial resource for those interested and involved in linking schools and higher education with communities to foster justice-oriented curriculum and instruction. Noted scholars explore the connections, limits, and possibilities between service-learning and social justice education. Exemplary models, unexpected hurdles, and synthesis of justice-oriented research are some of... Read more

Introduction

Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne

Critical Service-Learning as Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Citizen Scholars Program

Tania D. Mitchell

Improving the Human Condition: Leadership for Justice-Oriented Service-Learning

Marilynne Boyle-Baise, Betty Bridgwaters, Leslie Brinson, Nancy Hiestand, Beverly Johnson, and Pat Wilson

We Know It’s Service, but What are They Learning? Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Diversity

Courtney A. Bell, Brian R. Horn, and Kevin C. Roxas

Educating for the "Real World": The Hidden Curriculum of Community Service-Learning

Raji Swaminathan

Where’s the Justice in Service-Learning? Institutionalizing Service-Learning from a Social Justice Perspective at a Jesuit University

Sondra Cuban and Jeffrey Anderson

Service-Learning for Social Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Can We Get There from Here?

Rahima C. Wade

"Not satisfied with stupid Band-Aids": A Portrait of a Justice-Oriented, Democratic Curriculum Serving a Disadvantaged Neighborhood

Brian D. Schultz

Justice-Learning: Service-Learning as Justice-Oriented Education

Dan W. Butin

Biography

Dan Butin