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Service-Learning: A Disservice to People with Disabilities?
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Gurecka, Louis E.; Gent, Pamela J. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2001
Asserts that many service learning projects are rife with disablism, a set of assumptions and practices that promote the differential or unequal treatment of people because of actual or presumed disabilities. Discusses four common images about people with disabilities that may guide selection of service projects for them. Offers suggestions to…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Higher Education, Service Learning
A Deans' Grant Initiative for the Twenty-First Century?
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Pugach, Marleen C. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2001
This article poses three scenarios for national personnel preparation initiatives that would parallel the structure of the former Deans' Grants: a national initiative on the intersection of disability and diversity, a national initiative on school-university partnerships and disability, and a national initiative on service learning and disability.…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Disabilities, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
"You Have To Learn Who Comes with the Disability": Students' Reflections on Service Learning Experiences with Peers Labeled with Disabilities.
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Smith, Valerie M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2003
This article presents knowledge about disability issues that seven undergraduate students constructed through participation in a semester-long service learning class. In-depth interviews and examination of reflective journals revealed that students used their experiences to question the nature of relationships with people with disabilities, the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, College Students, Disabilities