Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-176).
Part I: Understanding the social-justice model for service-learning. Overview of the social-justice model for service-learning ; Becoming committed to service ; Becoming committed to social justice ; Developing a critical consciousness ; Navigating the stages of critical-consciousness development -- Part II: Engaging students in social change through service-learning. K-12 education : strategies for effective service-learning practices ; Higher education : strategies for critical-consciousness development ; Program development : strategies for building and sustaining your service-learning program ; Program development : continuing the journey -- Appendix A: Teaching and learning resources -- Appendix B: Suggested readings -- Appendix C: Seven principles of Catholic social teachings -- Glossary.
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This work provides information administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. The author describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can move beyond the book to a meaningful program for their schools. She explains service-learning's unlimited potential in terms of student empowerment and academic achievement and as tool in developing a student's lifetime commitment to service and social justice.
Service learning-- United States.
Social justice-- Study and teaching-- United States.