Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change

This book presents informed current thinking on the topic of community service-learning programs for youth, offering both veteran and new voices in the field. Combining theory and research with descriptions of innovative programs and specific recommendations for program design, the authors argue for an approach to service-learning that engages youth not only in helping others but in critical reflection and the democratic pursuit of social reform. Contents:

• Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change: An Introduction by Jeff Claus and Curtis Ogden
• Beyond Test Scores and Standards: Service, Understanding, and Citizenship by Joan Schine
• In the Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
• Promoting Identity Development: Ten Ideas for School-Based Service-Learning Programs by Miranda Yates and Jim Youniss
• An Empowering, Transformative Approach to Service by Jeff Claus and Curtis Ogden
• Taking a Calculated Risk: Harnessing the Exuberance of Youth through 'Community Problem Solvers' by Alice L. Halsted
• What's Love Got to Do With it? Teen Dancers on Community Service Learning by Tricia Bowers-Young and Richard Lakes
• Ripples of Empowerment: A Personal Reflection by Joy Des Marais
• Service Learning and the Making of Small "d" Democrats by Cynthia Parsons
• Building Legacies: School Improvement and Youth Activism in an Urban Teacher Education Partnership by Robert Maloy, Abby Sheehan, Irene LaRoche, and Richard J. Clark
• Empowering Teacher Education Students through Service Learning: A Case Study by Carol Kinsley
• Going Beyond Service by Curtis Ogden