Promoting Social Justice Through Appreciative Community Service

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (143) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mather ◽  
Erin Konkle
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Community Service

Partners, Neighbors, and Friends: The Practice of a Place-Based Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talmage Stanley ◽  
Stephen Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
Place Based Education ◽  
The Impact

At Emory and Henry College, our vision for a place-based education integrating service with learning led in 1996, to the approval of the creation of a new major in Public Policy and Community Service. A rigorous and interdisciplinary service learning major, all of its courses are designed to help students better understand the impact of local, regional, national, and global structures and institutions on social change. As the curriculum evolves, we are institutionalizing in it a systematic study of several primary conceptual themes: citizenship, service, religion, public ethics, cultural diversity, public policy, place-based politics, social justice, and social change. The program aims to empower students by enabling them 110t only to understand critically the necessity and processes of social change but also to become agents of change in Southwest Virginia, Appalachia, and beyond, while they are students.

scholarly journals Service-Learning as Social Education

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Freese
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Education ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
False Sense

Service-learning is a pedagogical process that actively involves students in social analysis, social criticism and social participation. This effort is not community service - which all too often conveys the impression of rather forcefully providing cheap, low skill, manual labour for less-than-affluent communities (Institute for Justice, 1994). This effort is not charity - which all too often appears to perpetuate stereotypes, to provide the elite with a false sense of altruism, and to inflict upon the disenfranchised a reinforced sense of despair (Freire, 1964). Rather, service-learning encourages students to speak in their own voice, to research authentic social needs, to be advocates for their social interests, and to serve their communities in the pursuit of social justice. This article examines one methodology that links service-learning to social education.

scholarly journals Community-University Partnerships for Social Justice: An Interview with Joan Kuyek

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Kuyek ◽  
Nancy Van Styvendale
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Specific Experience ◽  
Community Organizer

In this section, co-editor of this issue Nancy Van Styvendale interviews Joan Kuyek, an Ontario-based social and environmental justice activist with nearly fifty years of experience as a community organizer and educator. The interview discusses the realities, challenges, and benefits of such community-university partnerships, including the more specific experience of working with faculty and students involved in community service-learning (CSL).

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