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“There's No Participation In ‘Our’ Participatory-Action Research Project”: Overcoming Hierarchies In Service-Learning Partnerships, Julia Van Der Ryn, Omar Carrera Sep 2013

“There's No Participation In ‘Our’ Participatory-Action Research Project”: Overcoming Hierarchies In Service-Learning Partnerships, Julia Van Der Ryn, Omar Carrera

Julia van der Ryn

While strategic planning is widely recognized as a central component in the development of sustainable service-learning partnerships and university programs, institutions working to create organizational change often do not have a framework for how to address the power differentials among a diverse group of constituencies. Further, this framework should include all stakeholders in the analysis of the social, historical, and political contexts around service-learning partnerships.

In this study, participants in the service-learning program at Dominican University of California (DUC) explored the complexity of the social forces that influence communication and collaboration in service-learning. DUC faculty members designed a multiphase research …


Beauty In The Struggle: Realizing Full Access To Higher Education, Julia Van Der Ryn, Lynn Sondag Oct 2012

Beauty In The Struggle: Realizing Full Access To Higher Education, Julia Van Der Ryn, Lynn Sondag

Julia van der Ryn

Presentation focused on the relationship between access to a dynamic education, which includes the arts and engenders creative and critical thinking, and a thriving democracy.


Making The Most Of Dilemmas In Service-Learning, Julia Van Der Ryn, David Donahue Apr 2012

Making The Most Of Dilemmas In Service-Learning, Julia Van Der Ryn, David Donahue

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.


Beauty In The Struggle: Embracing The Dynamic Tensions In Transformative Education, Julia Van Der Ryn, Kendra Woodglass Apr 2012

Beauty In The Struggle: Embracing The Dynamic Tensions In Transformative Education, Julia Van Der Ryn, Kendra Woodglass

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.


Engaging Faculty In A Critical And Creative Process Of Assessing Gen Ed Components Which Use Service-Learning Pedagogy, Julia Van Der Ryn Feb 2012

Engaging Faculty In A Critical And Creative Process Of Assessing Gen Ed Components Which Use Service-Learning Pedagogy, Julia Van Der Ryn

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.


Service-Learning Assessment: Engaging Faculty In A Critical And Creative Process, Julia Van Der Ryn Apr 2011

Service-Learning Assessment: Engaging Faculty In A Critical And Creative Process, Julia Van Der Ryn

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.


Assessment As Critical And Creative Engagement: A Service-Learning Model For Meaningful Growth Of Pedagogy And Program, Julia Van Der Ryn, Thomas Burke Feb 2010

Assessment As Critical And Creative Engagement: A Service-Learning Model For Meaningful Growth Of Pedagogy And Program, Julia Van Der Ryn, Thomas Burke

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.


An Evolving Service-Learning Model Of Critical Engagement For The Assessment-Phobic: Striving Towards Meaningful Growth Of Pedagogy And Program, Julia Van Der Ryn, Thomas Burke Oct 2009

An Evolving Service-Learning Model Of Critical Engagement For The Assessment-Phobic: Striving Towards Meaningful Growth Of Pedagogy And Program, Julia Van Der Ryn, Thomas Burke

Julia van der Ryn

No abstract provided.