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Service-Learning in Higher Education

Critical Issues and Directions

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  • © 2005

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  1. Dan W. Butin

    1. Gettysburg College, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  3. Transformative Models of Service-Learning Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Evolution of a Community of Practice: Stakeholders and Service in Management 101

      • Jordi Comas, Tammy Bunn Hiller, John Miller
      Pages 107-126

    3. Human Rights-Human Wrongs: Making Political Science Real Through Service-Learning

      • Susan Dicklitch
      Pages 127-138

    4. “No One Has Stepped There Before”: Learning About Racism in Our Town

      • Marilynne Boyle-Baise, Paul Binford
      Pages 139-156

    5. Service-Learning as a Source of Identity Change in Bucknell in Northern Ireland

      • Carl Milofsky, William F. Flack Jr.
      Pages 157-171

    6. Service-Learning as Crucible: Reflections on Immersion, Context, Power, and Transformation

      • Lori Pompa
      Pages 173-192

  4. Reframing the Institutionalization of Service-Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. The Aesthetical Basis for Service-Learning Practice

      • James Birge
      Pages 195-203

    3. Putting Down Roots in the Groves of Academe: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning

      • Matthew Hartley, Ira Harkavy, Lee Benson
      Pages 205-222

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 223-230
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About this book

Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to develop links to local institutions, volunteer their time, and create a special bond between the university and the community in which they live. Service-learning has become a very popular alternative to standard courses in higher education and is gaining significant popularity. This book takes a serious look at the unintended consequences and alternative conceptualizations of this mode of learning and explores what it could offer us in the future.

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"Service-learning has the promise to be transformative for students, faculty, and communities, and this book reflects that promise . . .This book is in a class by itself, and will be the 'go-to' text for courses focused on service-learning, of which there is a growing number every day." - Jeffrey Howard, Editor, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning; Associate Director, Ginsberg Center

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gettysburg College, USA

    Dan W. Butin

About the author

Dan W. Butin is Founding Dean of the School of Education at Merrimack College, USA. He is the editor and author of over fifty books, articles, and book chapters, including the books Service-Learning in Higher Education , Teaching Social Foundations of Education , and Service-Learning and Social Justice Education . Butin's research focuses on issues of educator preparation and policy and community engagement. He has been Assistant Dean of the School of Education at Cambridge College, USA, and a faculty member at Gettysburg College, USA. Prior to working in higher education, Butin taught middle school, taught in an adult GED program, and was Chief Financial Officer of Teach For America. More about Butin's teaching and scholarship can be found at http://danbutin.org/.

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