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Chicana/o education and service learning.
Abstract
This paper provides a compelling starting point for extending the nature of service learning to disempowered Chicana/o students. Authors discuss educational benefits to students of discovering linkages between theory and practice in the development of personal identity and civic responsibility through authentic reconnection with their communities.
Introduction
Needled by the poor educational attainment of Chicanas/os one of the authors sought to isolate methods to aid them in grasping complexities and schemas involved in acquiring academic knowledge. Understanding historical-social and educational injustices divests students of the ...
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