Butin: SL as "intellectual movement"
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how excited I was to dig into Dan Butin's book Service Learning in theory and practice: The future of community engagement in higher education. I've just started the book this evening. Even in the preface, Butin forces the reader to challenge what they know about service-learning. He proposes that service-learning should find a disciplinary, academic "home" in the curriculum. He suggests that service-learning as it exists now is a "social movement" but he believes we need to think about an academic home for service learning so that it becomes an