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Authors: Dan W. Butin
ISBN-13: 9781403968777, ISBN-10: 1403968772
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Dan W. Butin

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

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Preface : disturbing normalizations of service-learning
Sect. IThe micro-politics and micro-practices of service-learning1
1Getting inside the "underside" of service-learning : student resistance and possibilities3
2"Whose school is it anyway?" : student voices in an urban classroom25
3"I can never turn my back on that" : liminality and the impact of class on service-learning experience45
4Beyond a world of binaries : my views on service-learning67
5Changing places : theorizing space and power dynamics in service-learning71
6Service-learning as postmodern pedagogy89
Sect. IITransformative models of service-learning practice105
7The evolution of a community of practice : stakeholders and service in management 101107
8Human rights-human wrongs : making political science real through service-learning127
9"No one has stepped there before" : learning about racism in our town139
10Service-learning as a source of identity change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland157
11Service-learning as crucible : reflections on immersion, context, power, and transformation173
Sect. IIIReframing the institutionalization of service-learning193
12The aesthetical basis for service-learning practice195
13Putting down roots in the groves of academe : the challenges of institutionalizing service-learning205

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