Full Description
Community service work is an ideal way not only to help define how young people deal with each other but actually to facilitate these interactions and help them achieve meaning in their lives. This book addresses community service ways to overcome divisions, foster multicultural group development, and reduce ethnocentrism and ethnic conflict.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Community Service Work in Compton College: Bringing People Together via Gardening Work
2. Group Work as a Necessary Factor of Human Evolution: Work Cooperatively Together or Perish
3. The Establishment of Roles within the Group
4. The Dynamic Relationship between Collaborative Learning and Community Service Work: Working Together for a Common Purpose
5. The Relationship between Community Service Learning and Interdependency: Our "External" Differences
Help Us to Realize Our "Internal" Similarities
6. Community Service Work: Improving Communication and Reducing Student Ethnocentrism
7. Teaching Principles of Group Development vs. Individual Gain
8. Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination via Interdependency
9. Keeping It Real: The Influence of Technology on the Quality of Interpersonal and Group Relationships
10. The Paradox of Maintaining Ethnic and Cultural Identity and Assimilating in the Dominant Group
11. Reducing Hate Crimes via Community Service Work in Multiethnic Student Populations
12. The Critical Periods for Incorporating Community Service Work Principles
Appendix A Understanding Immigration Reform and Ethnocentrism from the Cuban Perspective (by Dr. Norma Espinosa Parker)
Appendix B Directly from the People: How Community Service Work Has Changed the Lives of Individuals within the Community
Bibliography
Index
