A Glorious Revolution for Youth and Communities: Service-Learning and Model Communities [Hardcover]

A Glorious Revolutionintegrates the ideas of service-learning, positive youth development, and model communities into a book with a comprehensive message about making communities more democratic. Specifically, the book argues that through service-learning an educator can teach higher-order thinking, such as information literacy, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking. Educators learn how to teach each of these skills. The book also argues that service-learning fosters skills for career success. The book also introduces a new way to think about what constitutes a model community. The authors use current and classical research, books, and web sites on the topics presented in the book and employ examples of how different communities currently engage their young people. The end of each chapter includes exercises designed to foster critical thinking.

George I. Whitehead IIIis a professor of psychology at Salisbury University and cofounder of Uandgeo, LLC. He is coauthor ofServe and Learnand a number of articles on service-learning and in the field of social psychology.
Andrew P. Kitzrowworks in youth recreation programming and advocacy in Wicomico County, Maryland, and is cofounder of Uandgeo, LLC.

The material presented in this book provides many helpful suggestions for how educators can take advantage of service learning to promote development of specific skills associated with each topic. I think educators will learn to value this book as a resource that will help them improve their teaching. It is practical and presents a new model for thinking about service-learning as a way to build communities by providing youth with more central roles. It will be useful and provocative to those who are already teaching service-learning classes as well as to those who are contemplating how to design a successful experience for the first time. Robert G. Bringle, Chancellor's Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies, InlC“