1. Improving social welfare through service learning
A brief history of social welfare
The modern era
Homelessness
How many are there?
Why are they homeless?
Poverty
Hunger
Violence


2. Positive implications on the environment
Pollution
Environmental facts
The environmental movement
Environmental inequalities
Saving the planet, reduce, reuse, recycle


3. Improving education through service learning
Education and service-learning
What is wrong with public education?
Evolution of education
Educational inequity and no child left behind
Mentoring and tutoring
The hidden curriculum
Other educational offerings
Other factors


4. Imparting social change
Grassroots and community organizing
Brief history of community organizing
Group work
Creative conflict
Democracy, political voice, and voting


5. Global citizenship and service learning
Civic engagement
Leadership
Ethics
Questions left unanswered


Reflection
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.