Abstract
This essay diagnoses and suggests treatments for several pathologies that afflict service-learning. Structural challenges include geographic isolation and optimization of institutional administration. Student challenges include reinforcing stereotypes, deficiencies in practical skills, elitism regarding suitable service, underdeveloped empathy, and excessive focus on time spent in service. Community partner challenges include appropriately defining student labor and systematically under-reporting negative experiences. The prognosis explores how service-learning projects could instigate student engagement with the systemic nature of social injustice.
Recommended Citation
Schwartzman, Roy
(2009)
"Service-Learning Pathologies and Prognoses,"
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/jcehe/vol1/iss2/6
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