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The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning

By Randy Stoecker , Elizabeth A. Tryon

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
1592139957, 9781592139958, 9781592139965
LCC
HM766 .U64 2009
Open Library ID
OL22672133M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1133814 bytes)
Pages
232\228
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors to The Unheard Voices ask, "Does the community?" This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy. Using eye-opening interviews with community-organization staff members, The Unheard Voices challenges assumptions about the effectiveness of service learning. Chapters offer strong critiques of service learning practices from the lack of adequate training and supervision, to problems of communication and issues of diversity. The book's conclusion offers ways to improve service learning so that future endeavors can be better at meeting the needs of the communities and the students who work in them.

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