Community Practice and Urban Youth is for graduate level students in fields that offer youth
studies and community practice courses. Practitioners in these fields, too, will find the book …

The Center for Civic Education's We the People... Project Citizen is a case-based, problem-
solving curriculum, involving an entire class, through which students learn how to monitor …

The decreasing rate of involvement in organized groups and with voting by young people is
a disturbing trend that perhaps can be turned around. Becoming Citizens: Deepening the …

Alongside Community is a step-by-step guide that prepares social science students to be
democratic citizens by examining the theory, method, and sociopolitical dynamics that …

What is community? How important is community in the 21st century? Where might the idea
of community “fit” in education and schooling, teaching and learning? These are the …

Community service-learning, the integration of school or community-based service activities
with academic skills and structured reflection, is a growing movement in the field of …

In this chapter, the author sought to understand what the “real world” curriculum stood for,
what assumptions were behind it, and how community supervisors interpreted the “real …

This article reviews the social justice youth development (SJYD) model conceptualized to
facilitate and enhance urban youth awareness of their personal potential, community …

For one full week in June 2004, over 65 people, mostly between the ages of 14 and 24,
attended the Philadelphia Community School for Community Organizing. The goal of the …

Abstract Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth
and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin …