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Critical Multiculturalism and Service Learning.
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Rhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Discusses how critical multiculturalism can be used to inform academic service learning, offering as an example the case study of a Pennsylvania State University project in which college students work with homeless citizens in Washington, DC. Stresses the importance of intentionality in planning the community service components of academic service…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking
Participatory Action Research as Service Learning.
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Reardon, Kenneth M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Participatory action research focuses on information and analyzes needs of society's most economically, politically, socially marginalized groups/communities, and pursues research on issues determined by their leaders. It provides faculty with opportunities to conduct research relevant to community needs while providing service learning…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Instruction, Community Action, Higher Education
Academic Service Learning: Its Meaning and Relevance.
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Weigert, Kathleen Maas – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Academic service learning contributes to the renewal and satisfaction of faculty, offers new opportunities to think more consciously and creatively about relationships (faculty/student, disciplinary/interdisciplinary knowledge, campus/community), presents opportunities to contribute to the field's development, and offers a vehicle to faculty,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Creative Thinking