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Beyond Dependency: Strategies For Saving Foundations, Aaron Schutz, Dan W. Butin
Beyond Dependency: Strategies For Saving Foundations, Aaron Schutz, Dan W. Butin
Education Faculty Publications
We have generally tried to depend on the force of argument to win the day against the structural forces that have driven this decline. Yet foundations generally operates from a position of relative weakness in schools of education: we provide service to programs but generally do not have our own strong programs. We “take” enrollment from other departments, but do not “give” enrollment to them or bring independent enrollment to the school. This leaves foundations in a position of dependency. The core argument of this paper is that we need to move beyond dependency toward a vision of foundations as, …
Pushing Back The Rhetoric: A Review Of What Community Engagement Can Do, Dan W. Butin, Daniyal Saud
Pushing Back The Rhetoric: A Review Of What Community Engagement Can Do, Dan W. Butin, Daniyal Saud
Education Faculty Publications
A review essay exploring university-school-community partnerships as described in the works:
Pushing Back the Gates: Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia by Harley F. Etienne Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2012.
College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship, Audrey Falk
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship, Audrey Falk
Education Faculty Publications
This study examines the conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in a service learning course. Open-ended responses to instructor-developed surveys were analyzed. Results indicated that students primarily viewed good citizenship in terms of community service; however, their ideas about service were limited to passive kinds of service such as helping others and volunteering, rather than active kinds of service such as community organizing. Results were compared with conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in another course with a smaller volunteering component. Opportunities for broadening service learning students’ understanding of citizenship are discussed.