Disrupting the Hegemony of Choice: Community Service Learning in Activist Placements

Donna M. Chovanec; Tania Kajner; Ayesha Mian; Misty Unverwood

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Disrupting the Hegemony of Choice: Community Service Learning in Activist Placements

Authors

- Donna M. Chovanec
- University of Alberta
- Tania Kajner
- University of Alberta
- Ayesha Mian
- University of Alberta
- Misty Unverwood
- University of Alberta

Abstract

In this paper, we share insights from a research project that investigated the effects of a service learning experience in a graduate adult education seminar with an explicitly critical pedagogical focus and activist placements. We analyze a subset of the findings related to the lack of “choice” through a critique of CSL as a market commodity and argue that disrupting the hegemony of choice had implications for reconstructing student identities.

Keywords: educational choice, service learning, activism, adult education, higher education

How to Cite: Chovanec, D. M. , Kajner, T. , Mian, A. & Unverwood, M. (2011) “Disrupting the Hegemony of Choice: Community Service Learning in Activist Placements”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2011).