Service-Learning in Higher Education: Critical Issues and Directions

✍ Scribed by Dan W. Butin (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to develop links to local institutions, volunteer their time, and create a special bond between the university and the community in which they live. Service-learning has become a very popular alternative to standard courses in higher education and is gaining significant popularity. This book takes a serious look at the unintended consequences and alternative conceptualizations of this mode of learning and explores what it could offer us in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Getting Inside the “Underside” of Service-Learning: Student Resistance and Possibilities....Pages 3-24
“Whose School is it Anyway?” Student Voices in an Urban Classroom....Pages 25-43
“I Can Never Turn My Back on That”: Liminality and the Impact of Class on Service-Learning Experience....Pages 45-66
Beyond a World of Binaries: My Views on Service-Learning....Pages 67-70
Changing Places: Theorizing Space and Power Dynamics in Service-Learning....Pages 71-87
Service-Learning as Postmodern Pedagogy....Pages 89-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Evolution of a Community of Practice: Stakeholders and Service in Management 101....Pages 107-126
Human Rights-Human Wrongs: Making Political Science Real Through Service-Learning....Pages 127-138
“No One Has Stepped There Before”: Learning About Racism in Our Town....Pages 139-156
Service-Learning as a Source of Identity Change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland....Pages 157-171
Service-Learning as Crucible: Reflections on Immersion, Context, Power, and Transformation....Pages 173-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
The Aesthetical Basis for Service-Learning Practice....Pages 195-203
Putting Down Roots in the Groves of Academe: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning....Pages 205-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-230

✦ Subjects

Higher Education; Structural Geology; Philosophy of Education; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Educational Policy and Politics