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188 Pages·1998·9.745 MB·English
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by C. David Lisman| 1998| 188 pages| 9.745| English

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Addressing the need for marshalling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education. Service-learning, or academically-based community service is seen as a promising educational pedagogy that can help students acquire civic virtue and serve as a mechanism to enable institutions of higher education become stronger community partners. However, there is currently a lack of theoretical grounding for the service-learning movement; consequently service-learning is in danger of being co-opted by academic traditionalism, which could vitiate service-learning's social transformative potential and in fact undermine efforts at democratic revitalization. The author provides a basic explanation of service learning and how it is connected to promoting civic virtue. It examines the underlying public philosophy debate between weak and strong democracy theorists, or procedural and civic republicanism. This book argues that certain approaches to service learning, such as the voluntarist or charity model, the experiential education model, and the justice model, are ineffective because of their association with weak democracy theory or procedural republicanism. The central argument of this book is that a progressive communitarian public philosophy maintaining that individuals attain meaning and signfificance in the context of community is the most appropriate grounding for service learning.

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Author:C. David Lisman
Publication Year:1998
ISBN:9780897895675
Pages:188
Language:English
File Size:9.745
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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