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120 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780190858728

Copyright Year:
2018

Imprint: OUP US

Critical Service Learning Toolkit

Social Work Strategies for Promoting Healthy Youth Development

Annette Johnson, Cassandra McKay-Jackson and Giesela Grumbach

Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development. Designed as a user-friendly guide to carrying out successful CSL projects, this Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step assistance in planning, implementing, and evaluating Critical Service Learning (CSL) projects in elementary and high schools. CSL trains youth to become active and conscientious citizens through engagement and leadership experiences that meet real needs in the community. This approach is unique in that it places the youth/student at the center of the process. Prioritizing social and emotional learning (SEL) and school engagement, CSL changes the role of the school-based, counseling professional into that of a facilitator who encourages skill-building, reflection, and civic engagement.

Cultivating self-awareness, social-consciousness, and critical-thinking skills, brainstorming and community web mapping activities serve as the cornerstone of CSL and allow youth to become comfortable articulating concerns about their communities. By extending learning beyond the classroom and into the community, CSL enhances what is taught throughout the school curriculum, at all levels, and fosters a sense of civic responsibility and social agency.

Readership : Graduate level school social work students. Pre-service teacher trainees. Students and scholars from disciplines related to social work. Beginning-level as well as experienced school-based auxiliary professionals who seek to develop and implement successful Critical Service Learning (CSL) projects. Social workers who practice in schools. School-based practitioners. Students and practitioners of youth development.

Introduction
1. Transforming Service Learning to Critical Service Learning
2. The Nuts and Bolts of Critical Service Learning: Theoretical Foundations
3. Essential Elements of Creating Student Voice: An Expanded Framework of Critical Service Learning
4. The Role of the Practitioner
5. Gaining Administrative School and Community Buy-In
6. Critical Service Learning and Group Work
7. Logic Model Development to Aid Project Planning
8. Steps to Developing Critical Service Learning Projects
9. Launching Critical Service Learning
10. Self-Care and Preventing Burnout
11. Future Implications
Appendices
A. Logic Model (Samples)
B. Community and School Web-Map Activity
C. Evaluation Resources
D. Ice Breakers and Activities
E. Example of Evaluation Resources-Pre/Posttest
F. Resource List
Index

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Annette Johnson, MSW, MA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on social and emotional learning and critical service learning. Having served as director of social work for Chicago Public schools for fourteen years, Ms. Johnson has a keen interest in developing strength-based practices in schools. She has also trained school social workers and school districts around the nation on the utilization of innovative approaches in school social work practice.

Cassandra McKay-Jackson, PhD, MSSW, is an Associate Professor in the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. McKay-Jackson's research examines how social work interventions develop social agency of urban youth.

Giesela Grumbach, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Governors State University. Dr Grumbach's research focuses on social work practice in communities and schools as well as the issues that affect direct practice.

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Special Features

Presents the information and tools needed to implement Critical Service Learning in elementary and high schools in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format.
Provides hands-on guidance for each phase of a CSL project: development, implementation, evaluation, and completion.
Includes background information on theory and research.
Shares tips and guidance on getting started and designing one's own project.
Features implementation strategies and techniques for successful and sustainable engagement.
Includes appendices to provide useful tools for collecting and analyzing outcomes and hands on activities for student/youth engagement & empowerment.