activism in higher education
activist scholarship
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community engagement
curriculum innovation
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experiential education
feminist pedagogy
feminist service-learning models
higher education reform
service learning
women and gender studies
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- ISBN 9781563770234
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women’s studies sources.
Series Editor: Edward Zlotkowski is a professor of English and founding director of the Service-Learning Project at Bentley College. He also is senior associate at the American Association for Higher Education. Volume Editors: Barbara J. Balliet is associate director of women's studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her edited collection Women Culture and Society (1999) grew out of regular discussions among the faculty and graduate students teaching the introductory women's studies course there. A cultural historian, she is currently completing a book on gender and illustration in the 19th century. She received her PhD from New York University. Kerrissa Heffernan is project associate in Integrating Service With Academic Study at Campus Compact, Brown University. Previously, Heffernan was the Arnow Weiler professor of liberal arts at Lasell College, and director of its Women's Studies Program. Additionally, she was the director of the Center for Public Service, and director of the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life at Lasell. She is also the founder and director of Camp COLORS, a summer camp for preschool children with HIV.
