Race, poverty, and social justice : multidisciplinary perspectives through service learning / edited by José Z. Calderón ; foreword by Robert A. Corrigan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advancing service learning as a transformative method for social justice work / Robert Stanley Oden and Thomas Amar Casey -- Stimulating social justice theory for service-learning practice / David Schulz -- Reflections on service learning as a pedagogical strategy in composition / Christine Popok -- Linking critical democratic pedagogy, multiculturalism, and service learning to a project-based approach / José Z. Calderón and Gilbert Cadena -- Designing a safety program for day laborers : the forgotten workers / Edward V. Clancy -- Community-based scholarship: nutrition students learn Spanish in the classroom and at the city of Pomona Day Labor Center / Susan Algert -- Social justice and public policy / Roberta Ann Johnson and Robert C. Chope -- Social responsibility by design: interior design, graphic design, and photography students' close encounter with homelessness / Jill Pable -- Providing human services with a social justice perspective / Robert C. Chope and Rebecca L. Toporek -- Service learning in the world community: video production in South America / Betsy J. Blosser -- Creating social justice in the classroom: preparing students for diversity through service learning / Tasha Souza -- Social justice and community service learning in Chicano/Latino/Raza studies / Velia Garcia -- Reclaiming a forgotten past: the San Fernando Valley Japanese American oral history and photograph collection project / Edith Wen-Chu Chen -- Cultural issues in American Indian education / Karen Baird-Olson.

This volume explores multiple examples of how to connect classrooms to communities through service learning and participatory research to teach issues of social justice. The various chapters provide examples of how collaborations between students, faculty, and community partners are creating models of democratic spaces (on campus and off campus) where the students are teachers and the teachers are students. The purpose of this volume is to provide examples of how service learning can be integrated into courses addressing social justice issues. At the same time, it is about demonstrating the power of service learning in advancing a course content that is community-based and socially engaged.

Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon is an Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College and President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley. He received an A. A. from Northeastern Jr. College, a B. A. from the University of Colorado, and a PhD from UCLA. As an immigrant and the son of immigrant farm workers, he has had a long history of connecting his academic work with immigrant rights organizing, student-based service learning, participatory action research, critical pedagogy, and community-based coalition building. After graduating from the University of Colorado, he devoted fourteen years to community organizing efforts, particularly in Northern Colorado. While working on his PhD at UCLA, between 1984 and 1991, he helped organize multi-racial coalitions to defeat an English Only movement in the city of Monterey Park and to elect various local leaders to political offices. More recently, he has connected his academic work with community organizing in California's Inland Empire region.