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“Ethnographizing” Service-Learning: Creating Politically Engaged Anthropology, Wendy Ann Hathaway
“Ethnographizing” Service-Learning: Creating Politically Engaged Anthropology, Wendy Ann Hathaway
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Service-Learning is a popular teaching method that is increasingly being adopted by institutions of higher learning throughout the nation and is enthusiastically promoted as a progressive method for mediating the alleged decline in civic responsibility and ameliorating subsequent social ills. Servicelearning courses are also seen as an answer to growing student disinterest by connecting students to “real world” experiences while simultaneously providing much needed community support in the face of receding social services in this “Post-Welfare” moment (Goode and Maskovsky 2001a).
Anthropological insights, born out of a liberal humanistic tradition, can be employed to critically examine this popular educational and …