Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 1994

Volume

1

Issue

1

Publication Title

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

First Page

55

Last Page

61

Abstract

The contradiction inherent in "teaching empowerment" is that students need to learn specific, empowering ways to understand and interact with community people while at the same time feeling empowered, themselves, by the way the service-learning course is designed and taught. This requires a delicate balance between "starting with students where they are" and insisting they confront issues that make them uncomfortable. The author describes her attempt to do this in a new community service learning seminar for freshmen focusing on empowerment education.

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