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Randy Stoecker - Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement - 9781439913512 - V9781439913512
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Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement

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Description for Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement Hardback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: JNAM; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

Randy Stoecker has been “practicing” forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, “Practice does not make perfect.” In his highly personal critique, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work.      

Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1. learning, 2. service, 3. community, and 4. change. By “liberating” service learning, he suggests reversing the prioritization ... Read more

Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement challenges—and hopefully will change—our thinking about higher education community engagement.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439913512
SKU
V9781439913512
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Ref
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About Randy Stoecker
Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin–Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He is the co-editor (with Elizabeth A. Tryon and Amy Hilgendorf) of The Unheard Voices: Community Organization and Service Learning.

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