Service Learning for Social Change? Lessons from a Liberal Arts College

Author:

Lewis Tammy L.1

Affiliation:

1. Tammy Lewis has moved from Denison University to Muhlenberg College where she participates in the Public Engagement Project which seeks to promote a more civically engaged college community. She teaches and researches in the areas of social movements and environmental sociology.

Abstract

This paper explores efforts by Denison University to shift its service-learning efforts from service based on a charity model toward service based on collaboration and community-based social change. The author describes the institution's process of adaptation and a series of service-learning courses that draw upon participatory action research, asset-based community development, and what Denison service-learning faculty call “place-based” service learning. Based on ethnographic data and reports from students' reflective journals from courses that have attempted to develop a partnership with a nearby community, the author outlines some of the challenges for faculty and institutions that are considering crossing-over from service learning based on charity to service learning for social justice.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Education

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