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

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.

1. Introduction. 2. Critical Service-Learning as Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Citizen Scholars Program 3. Improving the Human Condition: Leadership for Justice-Oriented Service-Learning 4. We Know It’s Service, but What are They Learning? Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Diversity 5. Educating for the "Real World": The Hidden Curriculum of Community Service-Learning 6. Where’s the Justice in Service-Learning? Institutionalizing Service-Learning from a Social Justice Perspective at a Jesuit University 7. Service-Learning for Social Justice in the Elementary Classroom: Can We Get There from Here? 8. "Not satisfied with stupid Band-Aids": A Portrait of a Justice-Oriented, Democratic Curriculum Serving a Disadvantaged Neighborhood 9. Justice-Learning: Service-Learning as Justice-Oriented Education