The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1592139949 ISBN 13 : 9781592139941

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the Center for Community and Economic Development. He is the author of Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach and Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside (Temple).

Elizabeth Tryon is a community partner specialist for the Human Issues Studies Program at Edgewood College's School of Integrative Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592139949
• ISBN 13: 9781592139941
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Stoecker Randy, Tryon Elizabeth A.
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