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John is Back, or is He? the Dewey Revival and Community Service-Learning in Higher Education

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Critical Issues in Higher Education

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in The Future of Learning and Teaching ((CIFL,volume 8))

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Beginning in the mid-1990s a student-service movement emerged on college and university campuses in the United States and Canada and has been growing rapidly since (Butin, 2006; DiMaria, 2006; Furco, 2001; Howard, 1998; Kenworthy-U’Ren & Peterson, 2007; Smith, 2010). This is in part, a result of the increased scrutiny of higher education as a source of citizenship preparation, criticism of universities for failing to engage and respond to community and societal needs and increased concern generally for the perceived steady decline in civic and political engagement on the part of young people.

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  1. Brock University, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Kompf

  2. University of Surrey, UK

    Pamela M. Denicolo

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Carter, E. (2013). John is Back, or is He? the Dewey Revival and Community Service-Learning in Higher Education. In: Kompf, M., Denicolo, P.M. (eds) Critical Issues in Higher Education. Critical Issues in The Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 8. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-046-0_17

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