Teaching For Justice: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Peace Studies (Service Learning in the Disciplines)

Tenth in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this book shows how both peace studies and service-learning have been developing new ideas of how social learning takes place as a community process in conflict situations and what the dynamics of peace building are. The process has created a new niche in academia for preparing students to become social change agents. The enthusiasm of the contributors in this book gives the reader a new vision of what is possible on college campuses in community-based peace and service-learning at a time when there is a critical need for peace-building skills.

Robin J. Crews is visiting associate professor at Haverford College and an international faculty member of the European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria, and the M.A. Program in Peace and Development Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. He is past director both of the Peace and Conflict Studies program and of service-learning at the Uni­versity of Colorado at Boulder. He was founding executive director of the Peace Studies Association. Kathleen Maas Weigert is associate director for academic affairs at the Cen­ter for Social Concerns, concurrent associate professor in American studies, and fellow in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She has published and offered workshops on a variety of experiential learning, service-learning, and peace studies topics.