Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Volume 29, Issue 2

Posted by Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning on March 12, 2024

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (Volume 29, Issue 2) is now available.

In the introduction to the special section on civic identity, Schnaubelt, Bass, Terra, and Lobo offer a history of the core commitments of civic identity. The intro provides a detailed overview of the section pieces that offer a distinctive perspective on one or more of the core commitments, and the titles give you an idea of the incredible breadth of this section: “Educating Undergraduates for American Democracy: The Third Way Civics Approach”, “Civic Learning Through a Lens of Racial Equity”, “Cultivating a Civic Identity Using a Feminist Cohort Model: An Analysis of Tulane’s Newcomb Scholars Program”, “Defending Democracy, The Lens of Civic Identity: A Developmental Model for Undergraduate Education”, “Becoming Entrepreneurs of Connection”, and last but not least, “How College Students Can Depolarize”.

The remaining two articles round out the issue. In Bernasconi and Blume’s , “A Synechistic Conceptualization of Othering: Social Ontological Questions in Service”, the authors ask: “Can social epistemological and ontological approaches assist in questioning oppositional framings of us and them that are both the cause and the consequence of exclusion and individualism, such as “us doing for them” or “us thinking of them”?” Soria’s article, “Community Service and Undergraduates’ Social Capital Development” uses quantitative data and analysis in order to “examine the effects of community service participation on undergraduates’ social capital development, including whether any potential effects are conditional by students’ race/ethnicity, parents’ or guardians’ education, and social class.”

In their book reviews, Roland and Krupczynski offer their thoughts on Shreve and Spector’s What Universities Owe Democracy (2021) and Richard Guarasci’s Neighborhood Democracy: A Model for Building Anchor Partnerships (2022) respectively.

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