The academic, social, and psychological impacts of service learning /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Momentum Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Educational psychology collection.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of 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.