Encountering difficult knowledge: Service-learning with Sociology and Political Science undergraduates

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dc.contributor.authorTansey, Lorraine
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Brionyen
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tomen
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T09:47:05Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T09:47:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractCommunity based learning or service learning is a dynamic pedagogical opportunity for students to engage with their discipline in light of social concerns. This presentation will share the key challenges sociology students and lecturer encounter when working with charities and nonprofits with social justice missions. Students are asked to face what Pitt and Britzman (2003) call “difficult knowledge” in classroom readings and discussions on complicity to poverty and racism. The community engagement experience with local charities allows for a dialogue with the scholarly literature grounded in practical experience. Sociology students are challenged to see the institutional and wider structural inequalities upstream while working in community with a direct service role downstream. Taylor (2013) describes student engagement within this type of teaching tool that is critical of the status quo. Hall et al. (2004) argue that the classroom is best placed to navigate this new terrain whereas student volunteering independently might not facilitate reflection and academic literature. Students with a wide variety of needs engage with communities in different ways and lecturers may need to adjust and demonstrate flexibility to facilitate all learning environments.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationTansey, L. (2019) 'Encountering difficult knowledge: Service-learning with Sociology and Political Science undergraduates', Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 136-140. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.27en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.27
dc.identifier.endpage140
dc.identifier.startpage136
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10708
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCommunity based learningen
dc.subjectService learningen
dc.subjectCharitiesen
dc.subjectNon-profiten
dc.subjectSocial justiceen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectRacismen
dc.subjectComplicityen
dc.subjectCommunity engagementen
dc.subjectInequalitiesen
dc.subjectReflectionen
dc.titleEncountering difficult knowledge: Service-learning with Sociology and Political Science undergraduatesen
dc.typeConference itemen
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