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Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities (Hardcover)
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Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities (Hardcover)
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The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and
multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each
may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on
educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt
to forge a dialogue among practitioners of service learning and
multicultural education. The overriding theme is that service
learning without a focused attention to the complexity of racial
and cultural differences can reinforce the dominant cultural
ideology, but academic work that seeks to deconstruct these norms
without providing a community-based touchstone isolates students
and schools from the realities of the larger communities of which
they are part.
Although the chapter authors provide varied perspectives on the
benefits and challenges of integrating multicultural education and
service learning, they all are committed to a vision of education
that synthesizes both action and reflection. None of the authors
pretend to have all the answers to what this integration should
look like, nor do they believe that today's social problems are
easily ameliorated through education. Rather, they share theories,
practices, failures, and triumphs in order to further the
conversation about the importance of aligning what educators say
about the world and how they act in and on it. These authors share
the view that multicultural education is truly transformative for
students only when it includes a community action component, and
likewise, service learning is truly a catalyst for change only when
it is done from a multicultural and socially just perspective. It
is their hope that the ideas explored in this book will further the
work of those who share a commitment to the integration of action
and reflection.
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