Toward a Theory and Practice Of Radical Pragmatism

This chapter explores the connections between community organizing strategies and service-learning pedagogy in order to identify what these ideas can teach about the work done in schools and communities. The chapter introduces the term "radical pragmatism" and works towards a broad definition of what the term might mean and how it might be used to describe service-learning practices that embrace an array of orientations to social action work that fall under its purview.