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ERIC Number: EJ1211189
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-1076-0180
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From Critical to Decolonizing Service-Learning: Limits and Possibilities of Social Justice-Based Approaches to Community Service-Learning
Santiago-Ortiz, Aurora
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v25 n1 p43-54 Win 2019
Diverging from the traditional approach to service-learning, critical service-learning focuses on the root causes of inequality by addressing power and oppression. By incorporating critical pedagogy in the classroom, and action and reflection outside of it, critical service-learning looks to find solutions to social issues through university-community partnerships. In this article, I review relevant literature that centers social justice-based approaches to critical service-learning and argue that while these approaches are vital to student understanding of oppression, an anticolonial framework is needed to broaden notions of critical service-learning that challenge settler colonial logics. This article engages with the question "Can we decolonize critical service-learning?" and concludes by offering practices, such as solidarity to counter coloniality in higher education, that are responsible to the communities involved in the service-learning partnership.
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan. 1024 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3310. Tel: 734-647-7402; Fax: 734-647-7464; Web site: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjcsl
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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