Service-Learning in Higher Education Critical

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.

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

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

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