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Service-Learning in Higher Education critically examines the assumptions and implications of service-learning and offers exemplary models of practice and scholarship. It explores the limits and possibilities of teaching for social justice; it examines paramount issues of institutionalization; and it investigates issues of student resistance, student voice, and contested issues around race, class, and gender. Transformational models across the humanities and social sciences are presented and new directions for the future of service-learning are explored. By bringing together rising scholars and established experts in the field, this book offers an essential and state-of-the-art examination of the service-learning field in higher education.
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SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION CRITICAL ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS
Dan W. Butin
Service-Learning in Higher Education
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Service-Learning in Higher Education Critical Issues and Directions
By Dan W. Butin
SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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Contents
Preface: Disturbing Normalizations of Service-Learning Dan W. Butin
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Notes on Contributors
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Section I The Micro-Politics and Micro-Practices of Service-Learning 1. Getting Inside the “Underside” of Service-Learning: Student Resistance and Possibilities Susan Jones, Jen Gilbride-Brown, and Anna Gasiorski 2. “Whose School is it Anyway?” Student Voices in an Urban Classroom Raji Swaminathan 3. “I Can Never Turn My Back On That”: Liminality and the Impact of Class on Service-Learning Experience Sue Ellen Henry 4. Beyond a World of Binaries: My Views on Service-Learning Tiffany Dacheux 5. Changing Places: Theorizing Space and Power Dynamics in Service-Learning Caroline Clark and Morris Young 6. Service-Learning as Postmodern Pedagogy Dan W. Butin Section II Transformative Models of Service-Learning Practice 7. The Evolution of a Community of Practice: Stakeholders and Service in Management 101 Jordi Comas, Tammy Bunn Hiller, and John Miller
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8. Human Rights–Human Wrongs: Making Political Science Real Through Service-Learning Susan Dicklitch 9. “No One Has Stepped There Before”: Learning About Racism in Our Town Marilynne Boyle-Baise and Paul Binford 10. Service-Learning as a Source of Identity Change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland Carl Milofsky and William F. Flack, Jr. 11. Service-Learning as Crucible: Reflections on Immersion, Context, Power, and Transformation Lori Pompa Section III
Reframing the Institutionalization of Service-Learning
12. The Aesthetical Basis for Service-Learning Practice James Birge 13