Liberating service learning and the rest of higher education civic engagement / Randy Stoecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoecker, Randy, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service learning--United States.

Service learning.

Civics--Study and teaching (Higher).

Civics.

United States.

Civics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Community and college--United States.

Community and college.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xvi, 219 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Randy Stoecker has been "practicing" forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, "Practice does not make perfect." In his highly personal critique, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work. Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1. learning, 2. service, 3. community, and 4. change. By "liberating" service learning, he suggests reversing the prioritization of the concepts, starting with change, then community, then service, and then learning. In doing so, he clarifies the benefits and purpose of this work, arguing that it will create greater pedagogical and community impact. Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement challenges--and hopefully will change--our thinking about higher education community engagement"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439913512

143991351X

9781439913529

1439913528

OCLC:

921868692