Dan W. Butin

Resources - Community Engagement

What Is Service-Learning?

• Definitions of Service-Learning
• National and Community Service Trust Act Definition
• Six Models for Service-Learning

 Limitations of Service-Learning

• Stanley Fish. (2003). "Aim Low" Chronicle of Higher Education
• Joseph Kahne and Joe Westheimer. (1996). In the Service of What? The Politics of Service-Learning, Phi Delta Kappan.
• John Eby. (1998). Why Service-Learning is Bad
• Harry Boyte and James Farr. (1997). The Work of Citizenship and the Problem of Service-Learning.
• Ivan Illich. (1968). To Hell with Good Intentions

Syllabus Construction w/Service-Learning

• Preparing the Syllabus: The Fundamentals of Course Construction
• Program Characteristics of Effective Service-Learning
• Principles of Good Practice in Community Service Learning Pedagogy
• Service-Learning and Reflection
• Facilitating Reflection- A Manual for Leaders and Educators

SYLLABI

• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Campus Compact
• MA Campus Compact
• World Lecture Hall - huge resource of syllabi in all disciplines
• syllabi about Higher Education

Publication Opportunities

• The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Journal of Public Service and Outreach
• NSEE Quarterly (National Society of Experiential Education)
• Journal of Excellence in College Teaching
• National Teaching and Learning Forum
• JCAL - Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning
• International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering

Research Opportunities

• Grant Opportunities; more grants

Service-Learning Organizations

• Campus Compact
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• National Society for Experiential Education
• Service Learning Clearinghouse Project
• Service-Learning Home on the Web

Service-Learning Resources

• Essential Readings and Links
• Statistics
• The Scholarship of Engagement Online -- Clearinghouses and Review Board
• UC Berkeley Service-Learning & Civic Engagement Research Directory Home
• Discipline-Specific Service-Learning Resources for Higher Education
• Basics and History of Service-learning Movement
• Transcending Disciplines, Reinforcing Curricula: Why Faculty Teach With Service Learning  

• Infed (Informal Education) discussion of Community Studies
• The American Studies Crossroads Project has a subfield devoted to Community Studies
• City and Community (A journal of the ASA Section on Community and Urban Sociology)
• Clearinghouse for the Scholarship of Engagement
• Community Research and Learning Network (CORAL)

general resources on the scholarship of teaching and learning

• Peer Review of Teaching Project - University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Visible Knowledge Project - Georgetown University
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Integrative Learning Project
• Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Scholarship of Teaching tutorial - AAHE
• Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship - Georgetown University
• Internet Resources from the Association of College and Resource Libraries
• Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education Network (POD) - umbrella organization that supports teaching and learning centers
• Scholarship of Engagement

Journals about Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

• Teaching Sociology
• Teaching Theology and Religion
• Teaching Philosophy
• The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - (e-journal published by Indiana University South Bend)
• Inventio (e-journal published by George Mason University)
• International Journal of Education and the Arts (e-journal published by Arizona State University)
• National Teaching and Learning Forum
• Journal of Cognitive Affective Learning (e-journal published by Emory and Carnegie, focusing on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
• Meta-list of journals on the scholarship of teaching and learning compiled by Northeastern University's Center for Effective University Teaching

Centers of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

• Northeastern University - Center for Effective University Teaching
• NYU - Center for Teaching Excellence
• Stanford University - Center for Teaching and Learning

Resources - Social Foundations of Education

The following resources offer an eclectic mix within the social foundations of education, broadly construed.

Key Resources

• Key Figures: Contemporary Educational Figures
• Key Texts: Classic Texts in Education; Philosophy of Education Readings; 100 Milestone Documents; Historical Documents; Additional links for historical documents; Classics in the History of Psychology - full texts of classic works in psychology; Theory into Practice database
• General Resources: PBS's School: The Story of American Public Education; InfEd; see especially their "thinkers" and more general "ideas" table of contents;
• Disciplinary organizations and resources: Anthropology in Education (American Anthropology Association subgroup); Anthropology Net; Social Science Information Gateway - Anthropology; Voices of the Shuttle - comprehensive database of humanities resources; EmTech
• Syllabi: philosophy of education (sponsored by PES);

Key organizations:

• AESA (American Educational Studies Association) –the key umbrella organization for foundations scholars
• AERA (American Educational Research Association) – the main umbrella organization for educational researchers in the US.
• PES (Philosophy of Education Society)
• ASA (American Sociological Association ) – has a section for Sociology of Education
• AAA (American Anthropological Association) – hosts the Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE)
• APA – American Philosophical Association

Key Issues

• RACE: "; PBS's series: Race: The Power of an Illusion; American Anthropological Association: Statement on "Race"; US Census; Affirmative Action: Brown versus Board of Education (summary; full report [in pdf] can be found at: Supreme Court Historical Society and Street Law); University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases; Anthony Carville and Stephen Rose, “Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity and Selective College Admissions”; NAACP Call to Action in Education (2002); Project Implicit - Implicit Association Test; Gary Orfield and Chungmei Lee, Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation, Harvard Civil Rights Project, 2006; National Council of La Raza, 2007, Hispanic Education in the United States, Racial and Ethnic Identity Development tests for White students; history of genetic variation and global spread; Take the “global census”; Sorting people into races
• CLASS/POVERTY: The New York Times has an excellent set of articles about class in the US. Richard Rothstein, "Class and the Classroom"; US Census Bureau, 2007, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006; Summary, available at: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/010583.html Samuel Bowles, 1972, “Unequal Education and the Reproduction of the Social Division of Labor”; Ruby Payne, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, summary; Paul Gorski, 2006, “Savage Unrealities”; Donna Beegle, “2003, “Overcoming the Silence of Generational Poverty”
• GENDER: NOW Statement of Purpose; NCES, Trends in Educational Equity of Girls and Women
• DROPOUT RATE/GRADUATION RATE: Federal data on the dropout rate from NCES; One of the first reports to give an accurate perspective on the actual graduation rate; from the Manhattan Institute; an article from Education Week; “Locating the Dropout Crisis” - a recent Johns Hopkins University report detailing the massive dropout rates of schools serving primarily low-income and nonwhite students.

Key Educational Authors (Primarily Contemporary)

• Larry Cuban
• Lisa Delpit (read her chapter, "The Silenced Dialogue")
• John Dewey (read his  Pedagogical Creed  &  Experience and Education  & Democracy and Education, Ch. 13)
• Paulo Freire ; Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter 2); Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA
• Beverly Daniel Tatum, interviews on race available here and here.
• Maureen Hallinan
• E.D. Hirsch, “Why Core Knowledge Promotes Social Justice” essay "Why General Knowledge..."
• Phillip Jackson
• Alfie Kohn
• Jonathan Kozol (read excerpts from his Savage Inequalities) “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid”,
• David Labaree
• Ray McDermott  (read his Culture as Disability, with Herve Varenne)
• Hugh Mehan,  read his “What Time is It, Denise?”: Asking Known Information Questions in Classroom Discourse’
• Deborah Meier
• Nel Noddings (read her: What Does it Mean to Educate the Whole Child?)
• Jeannie Oakes
• John Ogbu
• Richard Rodriguez (essays by Rodriguez for PBS; interview)
• Myra and David Sadker
• Parker Palmer, (2003). “Teaching with Heart and Soul: Reflections on Spirituality in Teacher Education”
• George and Louis Spindler
• David Tyack

Key Authors in the Humanities and Social Sciences

• Blythe Clinchy
• Gregory Bateson (see also http://www.oikos.org/baten.htm)
• Howard Becker
• Randall Collins
• Auguste Comte
• Emile Durkheim and here and here
• Clifford Geertz
• Karl Marx
• George Herbert Mead
• Margaret Mead (see also the Barnard Center Conference on Mead, 2001)
• Robert Merton
• C. Wright Mills read his "Sociological Imagination"
• Talcott Parsons
• Adrienne Rich
• Max Weber
• N. Whitehead
• Gilbert Ryle, “The Thinking of Thoughts: What is ‘Le Penseur’ Doing?”, 1968, (excerpts) also available here
• Clifford Geertz, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”, 1973, (excerpts) also available here
• Horace Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”, Chapter 1 (also available at here
• Laura Bohannan, “Shakespeare in the Bush”, Chapter 5 (also available here
• Stephen Jay Gould's "The Geometer of Race
• Claude Steele, 1999, “Thin Ice: ‘Stereotype Threat’ and Black College Students”, Atlantic Monthly
• Peggy McIntosh, 1988, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”

School Movements

• Summerhill/Free Schools [Sudbury Schools] (An article in Teacher Magazine; An article in Education Week ); read A.S. Neill's Summerhill (excerpt from Ch. 1)
• Coalition of Essential Schools  (based on Ted Sizer, the founder of CES
• Montessori (read about Maria Montesorri ; read her book, The Montessori Method )
• Core Knowledge Schools (read more articles by E.D. Hirsch)
• Waldorf Education (An article in Education Week )
• Paideia Schools; read about the founder, Mortimer Adler
• Big Picture Company [individualized learning] (e.g. Met School) Read an article about it in Education Week
• KIPP

Resources - Doctoral Education

• David Labaree, “The Peculiar Problems of Preparing Educational Researchers”
• “Structure of a Dissertation Proposal”
• “The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions”
• “How Does One Choose a Dissertation Topic?”
• “In Search of a Dissertation Committee”
• Familiarize yourself with APA style: http://www.apastyle.org/; http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm
• Familiarize yourself with issues of plagiarism: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.pdf

Methodology

DOING ETHNOGRAPHY

• Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life (University of Michigan)
• SALT Institute for Documentary Studies
• Center for Urban Ethnography (University of Pennsylvania)
• "A Synthesis of Ethnographic Research" - online article

Theory

• Timeline of recent critical theorizing
• UC-Denver Theory site