Beyond Consumerism and Utopianism: How Service Learning Contributes to Liberal Arts Ideals
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Roy Schwartzman, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The authors place service learning within the liberal arts tradition of empowering others to help themselves. Such a contextualization supplements visions of students as consumers
or customers and education as a means to gain economic advantage in a competitive market. Their attention then turns to how even well-intentioned service-learning projects might be co-opted in ways that foster community dependence on the
services offered. Effectively designed service-learning programs should offer a broad range of opportunities for social activism while encouraging critical reflection about the applicability of market-derived educational philosophies.
Beyond Consumerism and Utopianism: How Service Learning Contributes to Liberal Arts Ideals
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Created on 1/1/2002
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 13 (1), 57-81.
- Language: English
- Date: 2002
- Keywords
- Service learning, Service learning programs, Social activism
Title | Location & Link | Type of Relationship |
MEDICAL PROVIDERS' VIEWS OF MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED ILLNESS AND MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4213 | The described resource references, cites, or otherwise points to the related resource. |