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The academic, social, and psychological impacts of service learning / Joyce Duncan, Teresa Brooks Taylor.
Material type:
TextSeries: Educational psychology collectionPublisher: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xi, 69 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781606507933
- 361.37 23
- LC220.5 .D857 2015
Contents:
1. Improving social welfare through service learning -- A brief history of social welfare -- The modern era -- Homelessness -- How many are there? -- Why are they homeless? -- Poverty -- Hunger -- Violence --
2. Positive implications on the environment -- Pollution -- Environmental facts -- The environmental movement -- Environmental inequalities -- Saving the planet, reduce, reuse, recycle --
3. Improving education through service learning -- Education and service-learning -- What is wrong with public education? -- Evolution of education -- Educational inequity and no child left behind -- Mentoring and tutoring -- The hidden curriculum -- Other educational offerings -- Other factors --
4. Imparting social change -- Grassroots and community organizing -- Brief history of community organizing -- Group work -- Creative conflict -- Democracy, political voice, and voting --
5. Global citizenship and service learning -- Civic engagement -- Leadership -- Ethics -- Questions left unanswered --
Reflection -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
