Service-Learning in Higher Education

DAN W. BUTIN is Assistant Professor of Education, Gettysburg College, USA and editor of Teaching Social Foundations of Education.

"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

• PART I: SERVICE-LEARNING: A CRITICAL RE-VISIONING Introduction: Disturbing Normalizations of Service-Learning; D.W.Butin Getting Inside the 'Underside' of Service-Learning; S.R.Jones PART II: THE MICRO-POLITICS AND MICRO-PRACTICES OF SERVICE-LEARNING 'Whose School is it anyway?' Student Voices in an Urban Classroom; R.Swaminathan 'I Can Never Turn My Back on That': How Service-Learning Influences Identity Perceptions of First Generation College Students; S.E.Henry Making Meaning of Social Justice: How Students Connect Community Service-Learning to the Cultivation of a Just Society; T.Mitchell Theorizing Power Dynamics in Service-Learnin; C.Clark Service Learning and the Postmodern Condition; D.W.Butin PART III: SERVICE-LEARNING AS TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE Service-Learning for Socially Responsible Managing; J.Comas & T.Bunn Real Service = Real Learning: Making Political Science Relevant Through Service-Learning; S.Dicklitch The 'Colored School': Serving to Learn about Racism in our Town; M.Boyle-Baise A Catalyst for Change: Service-Learning as a Source of Access and Self-Reflection in Bucknell in Northern Ireland; C.Milofsky & W.Flack On Becoming Multicultural Community Builders: Diverse Student Journeys; S.Pollack & P.Motoike PART IV: REFRAMING THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SERVICE-LEARNING Establishing Service-Learning in the Academic Landscape; J.Birge Putting Down Roots in The Academy: The Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning; I.Harkavay, L.Benson & M.Hartley Conclusion: Critical Directions for Service-Learning; D.W.Butin