Community Service Learning for Multicultural Education: An Exploratory Study with Preservice Teachers

Educational Considerations, vol. 43 (1) Fall 2015 Full Issue

“…However, inclusion of field experiences alone is not enough to ensure this. This inquiry resonates with literature and research that indicates that sustained engagement, along with supportive theoretical learning and opportunities to analyze, discuss, and reflect on these experiences, strengthens the impact of communitybased field experiences (Boyle-Baise, 2002, Sleeter, 2008a.…”

Service-learning: A Valuable Means of Preparing Pre-service Teachers for a Teaching Practicum.

“…Berg (2007) describes content analysis as "a careful, detailed systematic examination and interpretation of a particular body of material in an effort to identify patterns, themes, biases and meanings" (p. 303). Specifically, the researchers used an interpretative approach to analyse the data where social action and human activity can be treated as text (Berg).…”

Academic Service Learning as Pedagogy: An Approach to Preparing Preservice Teachers for Urban Classrooms

“…Many university faculty perceive AS-L as a way to change perceptions through experience with "others" especially in the arena of educational preparation. This approach can foster a sense of noblesse oblige and actually reinforce stereotypical views (Boyle-Baise, 1998). In fact, one could ague that a paternalistic, charitable, even missionary orientation are promoted through AS-L.…”