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.
Author(s): Dan W. Butin
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface: Disturbing Normalizations of Service-Learning......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 22
Section I The Micro-Politics and Micro-Practices of Service-Learning......Page 28
1 Getting Inside the "Underside" of Service-Learning: Student Resistance and Possibilities......Page 30
2 "Whose School is it Anyway?" Student Voices in an Urban Classroom......Page 52
3 "I Can Never Turn My Back On That": Liminality and the Impact of Class on Service-Learning Experience......Page 72
4 Beyond a World of Binaries: My Views on Service-Learning......Page 94
5 Changing Places: Theorizing Space and Power Dynamics in Service-Learning......Page 98
6 Service-Learning as Postmodern Pedagogy......Page 116
Section II Transformative Models of Service-Learning Practice......Page 132
7 The Evolution of a Community of Practice: Stakeholders and Service in Management 101......Page 134
8 Human Rights–Human Wrongs: Making Political Science Real Through Service-Learning......Page 154
9 "No One Has Stepped There Before": Learning About Racism in Our Town......Page 166
10 Service-Learning as a Source of Identity Change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland......Page 184
11 Service-Learning as Crucible: Reflections on Immersion, Context, Power, and Transformation......Page 200
Section III Reframing the Institutionalization of Service-Learning......Page 220
12 The Aesthetical Basis for Service-Learning Practice......Page 222
13 Putting Down Roots in the Groves of Academe: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning......Page 232
C......Page 250
D......Page 251
H......Page 252
L......Page 253
P......Page 254
S......Page 255
W......Page 256
Z......Page 257
