Service-Learning and Social Justice Education

Strengthening Justice-Oriented Community Based Models of Teaching and Learning

Dan Butin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000949230
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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 the important topics explored. This is a critical addition to the literature for teachers, teacher educators, and scholars committed to community-based teaching and learning that truly grapples with and engages issues of diversity, democracy, and civic activism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Critical Service-Learning as Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Citizen Scholars Program
• 2 Improving the Human Condition: Leadership for Justice-Oriented Service-Learning
• 3 We Know it’s Service, But What are They Learning? Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Diversity
• 4 Educating for the “RealWorld”: The Hidden Curriculum of Community Service-Learning
• 5 Where’s the Justice in Service-Learning? Institutionalizing Service-Learning from a Social Justice Perspective at a Jesuit University
• 6 Service-Learning for Social Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Can We Get There from Here?
• 7 “Not satisfied with stupid band-aids”: A Portrait of a Justice-Oriented, Democratic Curriculum Serving a Disadvantaged Neighborhood
• 8 Justice-Learning: Service-Learning as Justice-Oriented Education
• Index