Democratic dilemmas of teaching service-learning : curricular strategies for success / / edited by Christine M. Cress, David M. Donahue, and associates ; foreword by Thomas Ehrlich.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Cress, Christine M. 1962-; Donahue, David M.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 202 p. :; ill.

Table of 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 Cazares & Angelica Rodriguez -- Service-learning for a democratic future / David M. Donahue and Christine M. Cress.