Leadership Development through Service-Learning

EDITORS' NOTES 5 Wendy Wagner, Jennifer M. Pigza 1. The Intersectionality of Leadership and Service-Learning: A 21st-Century Perspective 11 Wendy Wagner, Jennifer M. Pigza Grounded in a review of the schools of thought that guide leadership and service-learning, the authors propose a set of values to guide leadership educators in their service-learning practice. 2. Complementary Learning Objectives: The Common Competencies of Leadership and Service-Learning 23 Corey Seemiller This chapter includes a thorough analysis of leadership competency development through service-learning and offers practical advice for course and program development and assessment. 3. Fostering Critical Reflection: Moving From a Service to a Social Justice Paradigm 37 Julie E. Owen Reflection on service-learning is core to modern approaches to leadership. This chapter offers both the theory and practice of developmentally sequenced critical reflection. 4. Community Partnerships: POWERful Possibilities for Students and Communities 49 Jennifer M. Pigza Community partnerships for service-learning are the most generative when they are grounded in the theory and practice of 21st century leadership. 5. Reimagining Leadership in Service-Learning: Student Leadership of the Next Generation of Engagement 61 Magali Garcia-Pletsch, Nicholas V. Longo This chapter argues for service-learning to reach its democratic potential by unleashing the power of student leadership in a democratic educational process. 6. Decentering Self in Leadership: Putting Community at the Center in Leadership Studies 73 Eric Hartman This case study explores the student and community benefits of a two-semester leadership course in which students engaged in service, education, and advocacy based in a community-identified issue of justice. 7. Intersecting Asset-Based Service, Strengths, and Mentoring for Socially Responsible Leadership 85 Lindsay Hastings Grounded in an asset-based approach to leadership development, a youth mentor program creates a cascading effect of leadership development. 8. Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership: Using a Theoretical Model at the Intersection of Youth Leadership Education and Service-Learning 97 Vicki Ferrence Ray This case study of the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership organization (HOBY) promotes the idea that leadership is action in service to humanity. INDEX 111