‘Berg Hosts Lecture On Service Learning
Dan W. Butin, assistant professor of education at Gettysburg College, will present a lecture, “You Say You Want a Revolution: Mapping the Limits and Possibilities of Service-Learning in Higher Education,” on April 18 at 7 pm in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts.Monday, April 10, 2006 01:59 PM
This event is free and open to the public.
In his talk, Butin will suggest that there are substantial theoretical, pedagogical, political and institutional limits to service-learning as presently theorized and enacted. The presentation will begin to question and reframe some of the foundational assumptions within the service-learning field in order to foster a more sustainable, consequential, and impactful model of community-based teaching and learning.
Butin is the editor of Service Learning in Higher Education: Critical Issues and Directions (2005, Palgrave) and Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories, and Issues (2005, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers). His current work examines the theoretical and policy contexts for preparing “highly qualified” teachers within the multicultural foundations of education and the implications of contemporary “intellectual diversity” debates upon pedagogical practices in higher education.
