Open AccessExploring Shifts in Conceptions of “Good” Citizenship: Community Service-Learning in Activist Placements
Author(s) -
Donna M. Chovanec,
Tania Kajner,
Ayesha I. Mian,
Misty Underwood
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cultural and pedagogical inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-3460
DOI - 10.18733/c37g6b
Subject(s) - citizenship , service learning , focus (optics) , service (business) , pedagogy , sociology , citizenship education , community service , mathematics education , public relations , political science , psychology , law , business , physics , optics , marketing , politics
In this paper, we share insights about citizenship from a research project that investigated the effects of a service-learning experience in a graduate adult education seminar with an explicitly critical pedagogical focus and activist placements. We analyze a subset of the findings related to students’ shifting conceptions of themselves as citizens and the factors that facilitated these shifts.