TY - JOUR
T1 - Service Learning Outside the U.S.
T2 - Initial Experiences in Singapore's Higher Education
AU - Tan, Kenneth Paul
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Service learning in higher education is an American creature. But outside the U.S., practices that resemble American service learning or that have begun self-consciously to describe themselves as “service learning” may also be found. This article gives an account of a proto-service-learning course on civil society in Singapore and discusses some similarities and differences between the U.S. and Singapore contexts in which the practices of service learning have evolved, identifying how this civil society course in particular was both a product of as well as a challenge to Singapore's somewhat different priorities in higher education, political culture, and attitudes to social justice and cultural diversity.
AB - Service learning in higher education is an American creature. But outside the U.S., practices that resemble American service learning or that have begun self-consciously to describe themselves as “service learning” may also be found. This article gives an account of a proto-service-learning course on civil society in Singapore and discusses some similarities and differences between the U.S. and Singapore contexts in which the practices of service learning have evolved, identifying how this civil society course in particular was both a product of as well as a challenge to Singapore's somewhat different priorities in higher education, political culture, and attitudes to social justice and cultural diversity.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84869576886&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1017/S104909650909088X
DO - 10.1017/S104909650909088X
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1049-0965
VL - 42
SP - 549
EP - 557
JO - PS - Political Science and Politics
JF - PS - Political Science and Politics
IS - 3
ER -