Service-Learning in Higher Education Critical Issues and Directions

by Butin, Dan W.

• ISBN13: 9781403968777
• ISBN10: 1403968772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 Biography

Dan W. Butin is Assistant Professor of Education, Gettysburg College, and editor of Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories and Issues.

Table of Contents

Preface: Disturbing Normalizations of Service-Learning	vii
Dan W. Butin
Notes on Contributors	xxi
Section I The Micro-Politics and Micro-Practices of Service-Learning	1	(104)
1. Getting Inside the "Underside" of Service-Learning: Student Resistance and Possibilities	3	(22)
Susan Jones, Jen Gilbride-Brown, and Anna Gasiorski
2. "Whose School is it Anyway?" Student Voices in an Urban Classroom	25	(20)
Raji Swaminathan
3. "I Can Never Turn My Back On That": Liminality and the Impact of Class on Service-Learning Experience	45	(22)
Sue Ellen Henry
4. Beyond a World of Binaries: My Views on Service-Learning	67	(4)
Tiffany Dacheux
5. Changing Places: Theorizing Space and Power Dynamics in Service-Learning	71	(18)
Caroline Clark and Morris Young
6. Service-Learning as Postmodern Pedagogy	89	(18)
Dan W. Butin
Section II Transformative Models of Service-Learning Practice	105	(88)
7. The Evolution of a Community of Practice: Stakeholders and Service in Management 101	107	(20)
Jordi Comas, Tammy Bunn Hiller, and John Miller
8. Human Rights-Human Wrongs: Making Political Science Real Through Service-Learning	127	(12)
Susan Dicklitch
9. "No One Has Stepped There Before": Learning About Racism in Our Town	139	(18)
Marilynne Boyle-Baise and Paul Binford
10. Service-Learning as a Source of Identity Change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland	157	(16)
Carl Milofsky and William F. Flack, Jr.
11. Service-Learning as Crucible: Reflections on Immersion, Context, Power, and Transformation	173	(20)
Lori Pompa
Section III Reframing the Institutionalization of Service-Learning	193	(30)
12. The Aesthetical Basis for Service-Learning Practice	195	(10)
James Birge
13. Putting Down Roots in the Groves of Academe: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning	205	(18)
Matthew Hartley, Ira Harkavy, and Lee Benson
Index	223