Document Type
Article - Open Access
Publication Title
The Review of Higher Education
Publication Date
Summer 2006
Abstract/ Summary
This article takes a critical look at the attempted institutionalization of service-learning in higher education. It asks whether service-learning can become deeply embedded within the academy; and if so, what exactly is becoming embedded. Specifically, this article suggests that there are substantial pedagogical, political, and institutional limits to service-learning across the academy. These limits, moreover, are shown to be inherent to the service-learning movement as contemporarily theorized and enacted. The article concludes by reframing some of the grounding assumptions of service-learning to position it as a disciplinary field more suited for becoming genuinely embedded within higher education.
Repository Citation
Butin, D. W.
(2006). The Limits of Service-Learning in Higher Education. The Review of Higher Education, 29(4), 473-498.
Available at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/soe_facpub/14
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