Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities

by O'Grady, Carolyn R.; O'Grady, Carolyn R.; Boyle-Baise, Marilynne; Densmore, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9780805833454
• ISBN10: 0805833455
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt to forge a dialogue among practitioners of service learning and multicultural education. The overriding theme is that service learning without a focused attention to the complexity of racial and cultural differences can reinforce the dominant cultural ideology, but academic work that seeks to deconstruct these norms without providing a community-based touchstone isolates students and schools from the realities of the larger communities of which they are part. Although the chapter authors provide varied perspectives on the benefits and challenges of integrating multicultural education and service learning, they all are committed to a vision of education that synthesizes both action and reflection. None of the authors pretend to have all the answers to what this integration should look like, nor do they believe that today's social problems are easily ameliorated through education. Rather, they share theories, practices, failures, and triumphs in order to further the conversation about the importance of aligning what educators say about the world and how they act in and on it. These authors share the view that multicultural education is truly transformative for students only when it includes a community action component, and likewise, service learning is truly a catalyst for change only when it is done from a multicultural and socially just perspective. It is their hope that the ideas explored in this book will further the work of those who share a commitment to the integration of action and reflection.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Sonia Nieto
Preface	xiii
Carolyn R. O'Grady
Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education: An Overview	1	(20)
Carolyn R. O'Grady
Part 1: Theoretical Frameworks	21	(92)
Beyond Empathy: Developing Critical Consciousness Through Service Learning	23	(22)
Cynthia Rosenberger
Service Learning and Multicultural Education: Suspect or Transformative?	45	(14)
Kathleen Densmore
Service-Learning: Does It Promote or Reduce Prejudice?	59	(12)
Joseph A. Erickson
Susan E. O'Connor
Reconciling Service Learning and the Moral Obligations of the Professor	71	(22)
Kip Tellez
From a Distance: Service-Learning and Social Justice	93	(20)
Rahima C. Wade
Part II: Reports From the Field	113	(132)
Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Service Learning: Preparing Self-Reflective, Culturally Aware, and Responsive Community Participants	115	(20)
Kathleen Rice
Seth Pollack
Social Justice, Service Learning, and Multiculturalism as Inseparable Companions	135	(18)
Herbert L. Martin, Jr.
Terri A. Wheeler
We Made the Road by Talking: Teaching Education 310, ``Service-Learning With Multicultural Elders'' at the University of Michigan	153	(16)
Stella Raudenbush
Joe Galura
Teaching Diversity Through Service-Learning Immigrant Assistance	169	(20)
Robert E. Koulish
Service-Learning and Social Reconstructionism: A Critical Opportunity for Leadership	189	(20)
Verna Cornelia Simmons
Wokie Roberts-Weah
The Construction of Meaning: Learning From Service Learning	209	(18)
Marilynne Boyle-Baise
Patricia Efiom
The Empowering Role of Service Learning in the Preparation of Teachers	227	(18)
Irma Guadarrama
Part III: Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Higher Education: Promises and Possibilities	245	(32)
Maximizing Impact, Minimizing Harm: Why Service-Learning Must More Fully Integrate Multicultural Education	247	(16)
Mark Langseth
Strengthening Multicultural Education with Community-Based Service Learning	263	(14)
Christine E. Sleeter
Afterword	277	(4)
Carolyn R. O'Grady
Author Index	281	(6)
Subject Index	287	(10)
About the Contributors	297