Social Ecology of Engaged Learning: Contextualizing Service-Learning With Youth

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Author(s): Joan Arches (University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA), Chi-kan Richard Hung (University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA)and Archana Patel (University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 11
Source title: Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7706-6.ch040

Keywords: Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter presents a community-university partnership model of service-learning with urban, low income, middle school youth of color focused on promoting agency and efficacy through an All Star Anti-violence Youth Summit. The summit combined basketball and small group activities to define, analyze, and address the issue of gun violence in the community. The approach is intergenerational and intercultural, and was implemented through a semester long Civic Engagement service-learning class. The diverse group of students at a large, urban, public University applied the concepts of critical service-learning, British Social Action, positive youth development, and civic engagement.

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