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Democratic Citizenship and Service Learning: Advancing the Caring Self
Author(s) -
Rhoads Robert A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.8204
Subject(s) - citizenship , democracy , service learning , narrative , sociology , pedagogy , service (business) , psychology , political science , politics , law , economics , linguistics , philosophy , economy
Service learning can promote the development of a “caring self”—a sense of self firmly rooted in a concern for the well‐being of others. Rhoads links this caring self to democratic citizenship and uses students' narratives to illustrate how it develops through service learning contexts.