Integrating service learning and multicultural education in colleges and universities
By: edited by Carolyn R. O'Grady
Contributors: O'Grady, Carolyn R
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Service learning -- United States; Multicultural education -- United States; Community and college -- United States
Description: The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt to forge a dialogue among practitioners of service learning and multicultural education. The overriding theme is that service learning without a focused attention to the complexity of racial and cultural differences can reinforce the dominant cultural ideology, but academic work that seeks to deconstruct these norms without providing a community-based touchstone isolates students and schools from the realities of the larger communities of which they are part.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes