Critical Service-Learning as Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Citizen Scholars Program

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania D. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Justice Education

scholarly journals Serious Play in Education for Social Justice - A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Wartenweiler
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
The Impact

Fair Battles is a 12-week Swiss education for social justice program with the goal of sensitizing high school students about the impact of their consumer habits on society. The pedagogical concept of Fair Battles is to employ the tool of serious play to enhance students’ social empathy, which then leads to service learning projects. This exploratory mixed-methods study examined the impact of the program by using pre- and post-program student surveys (n=16) and post program semi-structured qualitative student interviews (n=10). The survey data were analyzed using SPSS and the interview data were analyzed using template analysis. The results were organized according to Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model. The quantitative results show a statistically significant increase in the post-program survey scores for the learning and behavior level. The qualitative results suggest that the program had a positive impact on students on all four of Kirkpatrick’s levels. The conclusions are that the Fair Battels program is impactful, that social justice education needs to be holistic and that the combination of serious play and service learning elements seems to be effective for social justice education. Further research in the area of social justice education and serious play is recommended

Critical Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Foundations Of Education ◽  
Predominately White Institution ◽  
White Institution

Colleges and universities in the U.S. engage in service-learning in order to cultivate dispositions of empathy and civic engagement. This chapter draws from a Foundations of Education course in a historically and predominately White institution participating in service-learning in predominately Black and Latinx high schools. The purpose of the course was to teach about the legacy of state sponsored oppression, social justice education, and advocacy. The course provided theoretical frameworks to the practical knowledge and skills that students garnered from engagement in community schools. Data collected for research purposes were quantitative and qualitative. The results of the study show that service-learning can be a vehicle toward social justice education particularly in exposing oppressive structures and practices in urban schools.

Impact of Service-Learning and Social Justice Education on College Students' Cognitive Development

NASPA Journal ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Robert Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Social Justice Education ◽  
The Impact

This study used the Measure of Epistemology Reflection to explore the impact of service-learning and social justice education on college students’ cognitive development. Six service-learning courses taught with or without a social justice emphasis were studied. Results showed that service- learning courses in general had a positive impact on students’ cognitive development, while service-learning courses with a social justice emphasis appeared to have more impact on students’ cognitive development than those without a social justice emphasis.

Conversations Worth Having: Linking Social Justice Education to the Co-Curricular

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Ribeiro ◽  
Teresita Alvarez-Cortez ◽  
Christopher Hughbanks ◽  
Eric Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Justice Education

Service Learning in Interprofessional Education: A Case Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane R. Bridges ◽  
Marc S. Abel ◽  
Jim Carlson ◽  
John Tomkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Interprofessional Education
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