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Required Service-Learning Courses: A Disciplinary Necessity to Preserve the Decaying Social Mission of Black Studies

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: irogers{at}temple.edu.

	Abstract

Historically, the mission of Black Studies has been two-fold: scholarship and service. Both the pioneering students and the faculty of Black Studies called for the discipline to produce socially responsible scholar-activists, and studies have proven that the most proficient method of ingraining social responsibility is through service-learning. Therefore, Black Studies must require service-learning in its curriculums. It is argued that Black Studies should also require these service-learning elements because of their long legacy in Black education in general and Black Studies in particular. However, required service-learning courses are rare in departments and programs, a study conducted by the author shows. In order to increase the number of Black Studies units with service-learning elements, this article concludes with a service-learning proposal that programs and departments could use to institute a required service-learning component into their curriculums.

First published on November 20, 2008
Journal of Black Studies 2008, doi:10.1177/0021934708325734


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