A partnership in Nebraska with the Humane Society

Authors

Sarah K. Edwards, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Rebecca J. Pasco, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
M. Susan McWilliams, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Kathy Everts Danielson, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Journal Title

Community Works

Abstract

Perhaps service-learning continues to grow as an effective pedagogy in colleges of education because it offers everyone involved an opportunity to put words into action. With the news full of stories of bullying and school shootings, teachers and teacher candidates look for someone to help them make sense of what feels to be a growing trend of cruelty. Perhaps it is a natural reaction for teachers to want to do something positive in the face of brutality. Perhaps our wanting to be proactive corresponds to whatever drew us to education in the first place. Regardless of the cause, four literacy professors used the vehicle of service-learning to challenge their graduate and undergraduate students to consider issues of bullying, brutality and cruelty.

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Recommended Citation

Edwards, Sarah K.; Pasco, Rebecca J.; McWilliams, M. Susan; and Danielson, Kathy Everts, "A partnership in Nebraska with the Humane Society" (2008). Teacher Education Faculty Publications. 54.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/tedfacpub/54