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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Publication

Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 13 (1), 57-81.

Language: English

Date: 2002

Keywords

Service learning, Service learning programs, Social activism

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