Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning: Curricular Strategies for Success

Recognizing that teaching, in general, and service-learning in particular, are inherently political, this book faces up to the resulting predicaments that inevitably arise in the classroom. By framing them as a vital and productive part of the process of teaching and learning for political engagement, this book offers the reader new ways to think about and address seemingly intractable ideological issues. Contents include:

• Competing Democratic Values in Teaching and Learning by Christine M. Cress and David M. Donahue
• The Nature of Teaching and Learning Dilemmas: Democracy in the Making by David M. Donahue
• Banning Books to Protect Children: Clashing Perspectives in Service-Learning by Lynne A. Bercaw
• Solidarity, Not Charity: Issues of Privilege in Service-Learning by Caroline Heldman
• Pedagogical and Epistemological Approaches to Service-Learning: Connecting Academic Content to Community Service by Christine M. Cress
• Student Objection to Service-Learning: A Teachable Moment About Political and Community Engagement by Dari E. Sylvester
• Practice Makes Imperfect: Service-Learning for Political Engagement as a Window Into the Challenges of Political Organizing by Katja M. Guenther
• Modeling Citizenship: The Nexus of Knowledge and Skill by Stephanie Stokamer
• Consensus, Collaboration, and Community: Mutually Exclusive Ideals? by Christine M. Cress
• Cultivating Relationships Between a Grassroots Organization and a University by Judith Liu
• Negotiating Student Expectations and Interpretations of Service-Learning by Marcia Hernandez
• Service-Learning Is Like Learning to Walk: Baby Steps to Cultural Competence by Tanya Renner, RaeLyn Axlund, Lucero Topete, and Molli K. Fleming
• Conflict as a Constructive Curricular Strategy by David M. Donahue
• Why Are You So Mad?: Critical Multiculturalist Pedagogies and Mediating Racial Conflicts in Community-Based Learning by Kathleen S. Yep
• Working With High School Dropouts: Service-Learning Illustrations of Power and Privilege by Becky Boesch
• Democratic Lessons in Faith, Service, and Sexuality by Thomas J. Van Cleave
• Disciplinary Knowledge, Service-Learning, and Citizenship by David M. Donahue
• Why Should I Care?: Introducing Service-Learning and Political Engagement to Computer Science Students by Christopher Brooks
• Political Science Students and the Disengaged Polis: Civic Education and Its Discontents by Corey Cook
• Health Psychology and Political Engagement: The Why and How by Sandra A. Sgoutas-Emch
• To Reform Or To Empower?: Asian American Studies and Education for Critical Consciousness by Kathleen S. Yep
• Assessment of Expected and Unexpected Service-Learning Outcomes by Christine M. Cress
• Expecting the Political, Getting the Interview: How Students (Do Not) See Writing as a Political Act by Catherine Gabor
• Addressing Policy Dilemmas with Community-Based Research and Assessing Student Outcomes by Laura Nichols, Fernando Cazares, and Angelica Rodriguez
• Service-Learning for a Democratic Future by David M. Donahue and Christine M. Cress