Christine M. Cress, David M. Donahue

Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning

Curricular Strategies for Success

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the teaching dilemmas, such as the above, that instructors and students encounter in service-learning courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781579224318
• ISBN-10: 1579224318
• Artikelnr.: 32864660

Autorenporträt

Christine M. Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership, Higher Education Policy, and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has conducted professional trainings on curricular integration and the scholarship of service-learning at scores of colleges in North America, Europe, Japan, India, and Nepal. Earlier in her career, she was an academic and career adviser at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, and Northwest Indian College. For the last twenty years at PSU, she has directed Master and Doctoral degrees and a fully on-line Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning including facilitation of short-term international service-learning and COIL/Virtual Exchange classes in India, Japan, Morocco, and Turkey. Her cultural privilege is primarily northern European American with Cherokee (non-tribal affiliation) and Sene-Gambian heritage. She is a first-generation college student, adoptee and adoptive parent, and member of a multi-racial lesbian family. These myriad social positions influence her scholarship which addresses intersectionality, systemic oppression, and equity-centered education and community engagement. David M. Donahue is Director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Services and the Common Good, and a professor of education at the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. and Associates

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Thomas Ehrlich Introduction
Christine M. Cress and David M. Donahue I. Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service
Learning 1. The Nature of Teaching and Learning Dilemmas. Democracy in the Making
David M. Donahue 2. Banning Books to Protect Children. Clashing Perspectives in Service
Learning
Lynne A. Bercaw 3. Solidarity, Not Charity. Issues of Privilege in Service
Learning
Caroline Heldman II. Designing Service
Learning Courses for Democratic Outcomes 4. Pedagogical and Epistemological Approaches to Service
Learning. Connecting Academic Content to Community Service
Christine M. Cress 5. Student Objection to Service
Learning. A Teachable Moment About Political and Community Engagement
Dari E. Sylvester 6. Practice Makes Imperfect. Service
Learning for Political Engagement as a Window into the Challenges of Political Organizing
Katja M. Guenther 7. Modeling Citizenship. The Nexus of Knowledge and Skill
Stephanie Stokamer III. Creating Democratic Learning Communities Within and Without 8. Consensus, Collaboration, and Community. Mutually Exclusive Ideals?
Christine M. Cress 9. Cultivating Relationships Between a Grass Roots Organization and a University
Judith Liu 10. Negotiating Student Expectations and Interpretations of Service
Learning
Marcia Hernandez 11. Service
Learning is Like Learning to Walk. Baby Steps to Cultural Competence
Tanya Renner, RaeLyn Axlund, Lucero Topete and Molli K. Fleming IV. Deconstructing Dilemmas for Democratically Centered Learning 12. Conflict as a Constructive Curricular Strategy
David M. Donahue 13. Why Are You So Mad? Critical Multiculturalist Pedagogies and Mediating Racial Conflicts in Community
Based Learning
Kathleen S. Yep 14. Working with High School Dropouts. Service
Learning Illustrations of Power and Privilege
Becky Boesch 15. Democratic Lessons in Faith, Service, and Sexuality
Thomas J. Van Cleave V. Academic Disciplines as Dimensions of Democracy 16. Disciplinary Knowledge, Service
Learning, and Citizenship
David M. Donahue 17. Why Should I Care? Introducing Service
Learning and Political Engagement to Computer Science Students
Christopher Brooks 18. Political Science Students and the Disengaged Polis. Civic Education and Its Discontents
Corey Cook 19. Health Psychology and Political Engagement. The Why and How
Sandra A. Sgoutas
Emch 20. To Reform or To Empower. Asian American Studies and Education for Critical Consciousness
Kathleen S. Yep VI. Evaluating Democratic Process and Progress 21. Assessment of Expected and Unexpected Service
Learning Outcomes
Christine M. Cress 22. Expecting the Political, Getting the Interview. How Students (Do Not. See Writing as a Political Act
Catherine Gabor 23. Addressing Policy Dilemmas with Community
Based Research and Assessing Student Outcomes
Laura Nichols, Fernando Cázares, & Angelica Rodriguez 24. Service
Learning for a Democratic Future
David M. Donahue and Christine M. Cress Contributors Index