Dilemmas in Service-Learning: (Missed) Opportunities for Transformative Partnership

Although there have been growing concerns on how service-learning can accentuate the power differences between the server and the served, service-learning can foster transformative partnership by recognizing the contributions each can offer for a better society. Using participant observation and dis...

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Published inJournal of higher education outreach and engagement. Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 54 - 70
Main Authors Adarlo, Genejane, Amor, Urduja, Marquez, Norman Dennis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia and the Institute of Higher Education 2019
Subjects
Barriers
Consciousness Raising
Emotional Response
Experiential Learning
Foreign Countries
Health Services
Partnerships in Education
Poverty
Psychological Patterns
School Community Programs
Service Learning
Social Influences
Student Attitudes
Transformative Learning
Undergraduate Students
Urban Areas
Philippines
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Summary:Although there have been growing concerns on how service-learning can accentuate the power differences between the server and the served, service-learning can foster transformative partnership by recognizing the contributions each can offer for a better society. Using participant observation and discourse analysis, this case study examines the perceptions of third-year undergraduate students of a health-related degree in a Philippine-based Jesuit university about their school-community collaboration in a primary healthcare setting. Despite apprehensions at the start of service-learning, students saw themselves confronted with the challenge to overcome personal barriers from authentically encountering the urban poor, whom they served in the community. However, establishing transformative partnership in service-learning was not without its share of dilemmas. Such findings can contribute to discourses on service-learning, informing practitioners how to support social transformation in university-community collaboration.
ISSN:1534-6102