Service-Learning and Social Justice: Engaging Students in Social Change

This book describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can move beyond the book to develop a meaningful program for their schools. The author explains service-learning's unlimited potential in terms of student empowerment and academic achievement and as a tool in developing a student's lifetime commitment to service and social justice. This book's contribution to new knowledge and practice is threefold as it promotes understanding of how individuals become committed to social justice, identification of how one's orientation to service-learning and social justice changes as one develops a more critical consciousness, and practical strategies that teachers can use to support and guide students as they become more critically aware. Educators will gain a better understanding of the psychology and sociology of developing a commitment to service for social justice.