Biting the Pragmatist Bullet: Why Service-Learning Can Do without Epistemology.

Tucker, Robert E.

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Publication Date: 1999

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Biting the Pragmatist Bullet: Why Service-Learning Can Do without Epistemology.

Tucker, Robert E.

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v6 p5-14 Fall 1999

Suggests that pragmatism is most usefully seen as a perspective that encourages service learning practitioners to avoid epistemology altogether. Discusses three related commitments of service learning; (1) respect for disciplinary diversity; (2) encouragement of innovative experimentalism; and (3) enthusiasm for progressive thought and action. (Author/SLD)

Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Epistemology, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Service Learning

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Language: English

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