Advancing Equity through Service Learning: Building on Strengths Students Have Gained after a Year of Turmoil. Solutions for Educational Equity through Social and Emotional Well-Being

Autor/inn/en	Grossman, Jean; Duchesneau, Nancy
Institution	MDRC; Education Trust; Alliance for Excellent Education
Titel	Advancing Equity through Service Learning: Building on Strengths Students Have Gained after a Year of Turmoil. Solutions for Educational Equity through Social and Emotional Well-Being
Quelle	(2021), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; Service Learning; School Community Relationship; Community Problems; Social Justice; COVID-19; Pandemics; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; High School Students; Skill Development; Academic Achievement; Children; Adolescents; Resilience (Psychology); Minority Group Students; Low Income Students; Resource Allocation; Program Implementation; Program Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Service-Learning; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Schulleistung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ressourcenallokation
Abstract	In March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States. Every part of America has been affected while its existing inequities have been both highlighted and worsened. Millions of families lost income as parents, especially those of color and those employed in low-paying industries, lost their jobs. By May 2020, one in three children lived in a household that either was experiencing food insecurity or was not caught up on rent. In late May, the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer sparked a multiracial movement of protests and a social mobilization of Americans young and old across the country. All of these events happened against a backdrop of a highly polarized political environment that even turned violent in late 2020 and January 2021. This was a year of turmoil for America, exacerbating food insecurity, homelessness, and physical and mental health issues. Students around the country, but especially children of color and children living in low-income households, were affected as their lives were upended at critical developmental stages. However, with these challenges and their new realities came chances to develop new strengths. Research has shown that academic success is entwined with social and emotional learning and well-being, and that students are far more likely to engage fully in activities when they call on and develop their strengths, rather than focus on their deficits. Service learning is one such strength-based strategy that warrants serious attention from today's educators. Thus, service learning is an opportunity to foster the strengths and assets students have built over the past year, and, as presented in this brief, it provides proven social, emotional, and academic benefits to students. Yet service learning has not been given much attention in the current discussion of the postlockdown school environment. This brief discusses how schools can put in place service learning to build on the skills and heightened community awareness students have developed through the difficulties of the past year. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01