Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education
This exploratory study examines how service-learning faculty and community partners affiliated with rural colleges and universities engage in a practice aligned with Stoecker’s (2016) proposed liberating service-learning framework. Findings from 10 in-depth interviews indicate the ongoing emphasis o...
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The University of Alabama
2022-07-01
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| description | This exploratory study examines how service-learning faculty and community partners affiliated with rural colleges and universities engage in a practice aligned with Stoecker’s (2016) proposed liberating service-learning framework. Findings from 10 in-depth interviews indicate the ongoing emphasis on student learning, increased interface with government leaders, local businesses, and advocacy organizations, and distinct contextual factors faced by service-learning partners in rural areas. These findings complicate Stoecker’s initial framework, which completely decenters student learning, and calls for a deeper understanding of who constitutes community, change, and power broadly and in the context of densely connected rural areas. It also places the liberating service-learning framework within a theory of community development and outside of its ongoing emphasis as an experimental education model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92f76878ef5449c48fec5a739052bbdb2023-08-29T21:07:13ZengThe University of AlabamaJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship1944-12072837-80752022-07-0113210.54656/DQRT3631Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher EducationGarret J. Zastoupil0University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis exploratory study examines how service-learning faculty and community partners affiliated with rural colleges and universities engage in a practice aligned with Stoecker’s (2016) proposed liberating service-learning framework. Findings from 10 in-depth interviews indicate the ongoing emphasis on student learning, increased interface with government leaders, local businesses, and advocacy organizations, and distinct contextual factors faced by service-learning partners in rural areas. These findings complicate Stoecker’s initial framework, which completely decenters student learning, and calls for a deeper understanding of who constitutes community, change, and power broadly and in the context of densely connected rural areas. It also places the liberating service-learning framework within a theory of community development and outside of its ongoing emphasis as an experimental education model.https://account.jces.ua.edu/index.php/s-j-jces/article/view/101critical service-learningrural developmentcommunity development |
| spellingShingle | Garret J. Zastoupil Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship critical service-learning rural development community development |
| title | Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education |
| title_full | Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education |
| title_short | Social Change in Rural Communities: A Pilot Study of Liberating Service-Learning with Rural Higher Education |
| title_sort | social change in rural communities a pilot study of liberating service learning with rural higher education |
| topic | critical service-learning rural development community development |
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