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Case Study II: Service Learning and You

One of the criticisms of service learning is that students perceive their experiences as ‘‘charity’’ or ‘‘volunteer work’’ rather than as a form of learning or an act of social change (Artz, 2001;

Bickford & Reynolds, 2002; Morton, 1995). Oster-Aaland and her colleagues state, ‘‘[s]ervice learning is not just serving, as a student might do by working for weeks as an intern. Nor is the learning just cognitive; instead the learning grows out of application and reflection’’ (2004, p. 349).

So how has this project affected YOU? Not the group, not the agency you are working with— YOU . Read the seven articles posted with this assignment and reflect critically on your thoughts during the process.

Your response, while not having “right” and “wrong” answers, will be an academically rigorous and well supported argument or narrative (a critical reflection) of your experiences during the process. It will be from 3 – 4 double spaced pages using proper APA format, turned in electronically through the Case Study II Turnitin.com link. This assignment is due by 12:30 p.m., November 19, 2020.

References

Artz, L. (2001). Critical ethnography for communication studies: Dialogue and social justice in service-learning. Southern Communication Journal, 66, 239–250. DOI: 10.1080/10417940109373202.

Badger, L. N. (2017). Beyond the charity-service paradigm: Building ethical platforms for social justice education with those most affected. Communication Education, 66, 371–373. DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2017.1291981

Bickford, D. M., & Reynolds, N. (2002). Activism and service learning: Reframing volunteerism as acts of dissent. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2, 229–252. DOI: 10.1215/15314200-2-2-229.

Endres, D., & Gould, M. (2009). ‘‘I am also in the position to use my whiteness to help them out’’: The communication of whiteness in service learning. Western Journal of Communication, 73, 418–436. DOI: 10.1080/10570310903279083

Hartnett, S. J. (2010). Communication, social justice, and joyful commitment. Western Journal of Communication, 74, 68–93. DOI: 10.1080/10570310903463778

Morton, K. (1995). The irony of service: Charity, project and social change in service-learning. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2, 19–22.

Oster-Aaland, L. K., Sellnow, T., Nelson, P. E., & Pearson, J. (2004). The status of service learning in departments of communication: A follow-up study. Communication Education, 53, 348–356. DOI: 10.1080/0363452032000305959