The academic, social, and psychological impacts of service learning / / Joyce Duncan and Teresa Brooks Taylor

• Autore: Duncan Joyce
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Momentum Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 69 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 378.103
• Soggetto topico: Service learning
• Persona (resp. second.): TaylorTeresa Brooks
• Note generali: Co-published with Cognella Academic Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-66) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The academic, social, and psychological impacts of service learning
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809749503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Educational psychology collection.