Service-learning to advance social justice in a time of radical inequality

• Other Authors: Tinkler, Alan S. (Editor), Tinkler, Barri E. (Editor), Jagla, Virginia M. (Editor), Strait, Jean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
• Series: Advances in service-learning research.
• Subjects: Service learning.; Social justice > Study and teaching.; Teachers > Training of.; Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.; Teacher training.; Philosophy and theory of education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806610488
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-375-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 429 pages)

When considering inequality, one goal for educators is to enhance critical engagement to allow learners an opportunity to participate in an inquiry process that advances democracy. Service-learning pedagogy offers an opportunity to advance engaged-learning opportunities within higher education. This...

Table of Contents:

• Preface : Reclaiming teaching and learning through service-learning / Todd Price
• More than a desire to serve : a mixed methods exploration of low-income, first-generation college students' motivations to participate in service-learning / Travis T. York
• Reflections on the enactment of a critical service-learning experience / C. Lynne Hannah, Barri Tinkler, Holly Morgan Frye, James K. Leverett, and Dwayne C. Wright
• Disruptive practices: advancing social justice through feminist community based service-learning in higher education / Beth S. Catlett and Amira Proweller
• Critical community service-learning in a graduate seminar : strategically integrating activist placements and critical pedagogy to advance social justice / Donna Chovanec, Tania Kajner, Ayesha Mian, and Misty Underwood
• The use of service-learning in U.S. dietetics education : in service of whom? / Christin L. Seher and Susan V. Iverson
• Examining social justice in teacher education : four case studies of alternative nontraditional service-learning partnerships in teacher education / Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell, Estanislado S. Barrera IV, Leah Katherine Saal, and Tynisha Meidl
• Reenvisioning teacher preparation : the transformative power of teachers studying "abroad" in the neighborhood / Elizabeth Grassi and Joan Armon
• Exploring the influence of design principles to create a global service-learning project for teacher-candidates in the upper East Region, Ghana, West Africa : a case study / Cynthia Bourne, Susan Crichton, and Vida N. Yakong
• (Re)framing service-learning with youth participatory action research : a social justice-oriented approach to service-learning practice / Melissa Bocci
• Communities of practice : youth and social justice service-learning / Emily A. Nemeth and Christian Winterbottom
• Developing a more critically minded citizenry : rethinking service-learning in the social studies / Jason Harshman and Jonathan Duffy
• Moving from traditional to critical service-learning : reflexivity, reciprocity, and place / Guiseppe Getto and Dennis McCunney
• Infusing service-learning with social justice through cultural humility / Lianne Lee and Darren E. Lund
• A dream for service / Khuram Hussain
• Reflection : The key to meaningful social change in service-learning and community-based endeavors / John W. Murphy and Christian A. Schlaerth.