Service-Learning in Higher Education

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. Contents include:

• Introduction: Disturbing Normalizations of Service-Learning--Dan W. Butin
• Getting Inside the "Underside" of Service-Learning--Susan Robb Jones
• "Whose School Is It Anyway?" Student Voices in an Urban Classroom--Raji Swaminathan
• "I Can Never Turn My Back on That": How Service-Learning Influences Identity Perceptions of First Generation College Students--Sue Ellen Henry
• Making Meaning of Social Justice: How Students Connect Community Service-Learning to the Cultivation of a Just Society--Tania Mitchell
• Theorizing Power Dynamics in Service-Learning--Caroline Clark
• Service Learning and the Postmodern Condition--Dan W. Butin
• Service-Learning for Socially Responsible Managing--Jordi Comas, Tammy Bunn
• Real Service = Real Learning: Making Political Science Relevant through Service-Learning--Susan Dicklitch
• The "Colored School": Serving to Learn about Racism in our Town--Marilynne Boyle-Baise
• A Catalyst for Change: Service-Learning as a Source of Access and Self-Reflection in Bucknell in Northern Ireland--Carl Milofsky, William Flack
• On Becoming Multicultural Community Builders: Diverse Student Journeys--Seth Pollack, Pamela Motoike
• Establishing Service-Learning in the Academic Landscape--James Birge
• Putting Down Roots in The Academy: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning--Ira Harkavy, Lee Benson, Matthew Hartley
• Conclusion: Critical Directions for Service-Learning--Dan W. Butin