| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The nature of teaching and learning dilemmas: democracy in the making / David M. Donahue -- Banning books to protect children: clashing perspectives in service-learning / Lynne A. Bercaw -- Solidarity, not charity: issues of privilege in service-learning / Caroline Heldman -- Pedagogical and epistemological approaches to service-learning: connecting academic content to community service / Christine M. Cress -- Student objection to service-learning: a teachable moment about political and community engagement / Dari E. Sylvester -- Practice makes imperfect: service-learning for political engagement as a window into the challenges of political organizing / Katja M. Guenther -- Modeling citizenship: the nexus of knowledge and skill / Stephanie Stokamer -- Consensus, collaboration, and community: mutually exclusive ideals? / Christine M. Cress -- Cultivating relationships between a grass roots organization and a university / Judith Liu -- Negotiating student expectations and interpretations of service-learning / Marcia Hernandez -- Service-learning is like learning to walk: baby steps to cultural competence / Tanya Renner [and others] -- Conflict as a constructive curricular strategy / David M. Donahue -- Why are you so mad?: critical multiculturalist pedagogies and mediating racial conflicts in community-based learning / Kathleen S. Yep -- Working with high school drop-outs: service-learning illustrations of power and privilege / Becky Boesch -- Democratic lessons in faith, service, and sexuality / Thomas J. Van Cleave -- Disciplinary knowledge, service-learning, and citizenship / David M. Donahue -- Why should i care?: introducing service-learning and political engagement to computer science students / Christopher Brooks -- Political science students and the disengaged polis: civic education and its discontents / Corey Cook -- Health psychology and political engagement: the why and how / Sandra A. Sgoutas-Emch -- To reform or to empower: Asian American studies and education for critical consciousness / Kathleen S. Yep -- Assessment of expected and unexpected service-learning outcomes / Christine M. Cress -- Expecting the political, getting the interview: how students (do not) see writing as a political act / Catherine Gabor -- Addressing policy dilemmas with community-based research and assessing student outcomes / Laura Nichols, Fernando Cázares & Angelica Rodriguez -- Service-learning for a democratic future / David M. Donahue and Christine M. Cress. |
| Summary |
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. Using real incidents, the contributors explore the democratic intersections of various political beliefs along with race/ethnicity, class, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and other con. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Service learning -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Service learning. |
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United States. |
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Democracy and education -- United States.
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Democracy and education. |
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Critical pedagogy -- United States.
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Critical pedagogy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cress, Christine M. (Christine Marie), 1962-
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Donahue, David M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Democratic dilemmas of teaching service-learning. 1st ed. Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2011 9781579224301 (DLC) 2010044688 (OCoLC)672300097 |
| ISBN |
9781579225995 (electronic book) |
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1579225993 (electronic book) |
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9781579224301 |
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157922430X |
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9781579224318 |
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1579224318 |
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1579225993 |
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9781579226008 |
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1579226000 |
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