The authors of this volume collectively demonstrate the importance of critical service-learning in this historic moment as we participate in, and witness ongoing struggles for justice around the world. The contributors of this volume offer guidance to educators and scholars alike who are interested in designing, participating in, and studying the potential of alliances formed through critical service-learning.
The volume emphasizes theoretical and historical foundations of critical service-learning, pressing questions facing the field, exploration of outcomes of, and ongoing challenges for the pedagogy, and design features and larger scale models of critical service-learning that can be implemented across the educational landscape of elementary, secondary, and higher education.
Introduction; Emily A. Nemeth and Ashley N. Patterson.
Section I. Becoming Rooted: Strengthening The Foundation Of Critical
Service-learning.
Chapter
1. Social Movement Building as Critical Service-Learning; Joanne
Tien.
Chapter
2. Womxn of Color's Community Engagement in College: The Role of
Family in Defining and Sustaining Community-Engaged Service; Gema Cardona.
Chapter
3. A Call for a Framework that Disrupts Anti-Black Racism: A Space
for Integrating and Expanding Critical Service Learning in Higher Education;
Nicole Webster.
Section II. Critical Cartography: Using Decolonizing Tools To Map The
Landscape Of Critical Servicel Earning.
Chapter
4. Weeding for Social Justice; Colleen Rost-Banik and Ulla Hasager.
Chapter
5. Balancing in a Whirlwind: The Influence of International
Service-Learning on Preservice Teachers' Movement Toward Humanizing Pedagogy;
Meagan A. Hoff, Kristie O'Donnell Lussier, and Lori Czop Assaf.
Chapter
6. Undergraduate Service Learning as a Context for Exploring the
Institutional Void of Higher Education; Diana Arya, Alexandria Muller, John
Cano, Faith Hyun, Mallory Rice, and Devon Christman.
Section III. Digital (re)design: Exploring The Potential Of Critical
Eservice-learning.
Chapter
7. Crafting Critical Service-Learning in Online Spaces: Critical
eService-Learning; Jean Strait.
Chapter
8. Integrating the Socially Homeless through the Online Teaching and
Learning Environments via the Implementation of Critical eService-Learning;
Anna Zak and Christine Angel.
Chapter
9. Can Empathy Go Virtual? Creating Authentic Connections Through
Critical eService-Learning Design; Suzanne Ehrlich, Amanda Hall, Christian
Winterbottom, and Michelle Bartlett.
Section IV. Building Capacity: Models For Embedding Engagement Across
Scales.
Chapter
10. Lessons from the Intersections: Participatory and Emergent
Knowledge Production in Critical Service-Learning; Maurice Stevens.
Chapter
11. Reckoning with (Recent) History: Reparatory Service Learning for
Transformative Change; Alexios Rosario-Moore and Editha Rosario-Moore.
Chapter
12. Towards a Social Justice Model for Service-Learning: A
Practitioner Inquiry; Julie Jaynes-Pacheco.
Chapter
13. Critical Service-Learning Amidst Conflict: Tensions and
Opportunities for Peacebuilding in Divided Societies; Laura Fonseca and Lina
Trigos-Carrillo.
Section V. From Theory To Embodiment: Exploring Design Features Of Effective
Critical Service-learning Projects And Coursework.
Chapter
14. Lessons on Transformative Reflection: Practitioner Research on
Redesigning Reflection in Critical Service-Learning; Raquel Wood.
Chapter
15. Adopting Cultural Humility to Humanize Critical Service-Learning
in Teacher Education; Darren Lund.
Chapter
16. It Takes a Village: The Big Buddy Program Parents' Perspectives;
Ted Kesler and Karla Manning.
Emily A. Nemeth, Denison University
Ashley N. Patterson, Penn State University
