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**The service-learning scholarship antinome:** **Our research is focused on educating students yet we neglect the education literature** Amy Kenworthy, Professor, Bond University [akenwort@bond.edu.au] George Hrivnak, Assistant Professor, Bond University [ghrivnak@gmail.com]




 * Keywords: ** Theory, interactive session, education literature


 * Track: ** Theoretical or conceptual frameworks to advance research


 * Format: ** Poster presentation

**Date & time:** Friday 3:20-4:30  **Location:** Salon 4 / Salon 9

As research scholars in the field of service-learning and engagement, our research is predominantly focused on the context of education. Paradoxically, we rarely turn to the literature on education to inform our scholarship. As scholars in the service-learning domain, many of us fall prey to the road that is more travelled, narrow in terms of disciplinary integration, and leads us to read our own journals, cite our own research, publish in our own outlets, and neglect educators, scholars, and entire disciplines that we have much to learn from and contribute to. To further reinforce this problem, in many institutions of higher learning, faculty are neither encouraged nor rewarded for a focus on educational scholarship (Greenberg, et al. 2007). This is not only telling but also ironic, given the fact that “education is a core mission of all universities” (Donaldson, 2002: p.96).
 * Summary: **

Based on a citation search across seventeen years (1994-2010) of the //Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning//, there are only three well-cited educational theorists (John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and David Kolb). We discuss the potential contributions of numerous other educational authors and theorists who are either rarely cited or absent from the service-learning literature we reviewed (e.g., Lev Vygotsky, Jack Mezirow, Erik Erikson).

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What we intend to do in this session is to present the theoretical and conceptual work of over a dozen educational authors and theorists, as well as contextualize their theories in terms of service-learning research. We intentionally chose a variety of well-known and not-so-well-known theorists to make the session attractive to those who are new to the learning literature as well as those who have “dabbled” in it before. The specific content we will discuss consists of the substantial contributions—directly or indirectly—of these authors and theorists.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Bradford, D. L. (1993). Foreword. In C.M. Vance (Ed.), //Mastering management education: Innovations in teaching effectiveness//: ix-x. London: Sage.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">References: **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Donaldson, L. (2002). Damned by our own theories: Contradictions between theories and management education. //Academy of Management Learning and Education//, //1//(1), 96-106.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Ducoffe, S. J. S., Tromley, C. L., & Tucker, M. (2006). Interdisciplinary, team-taught, undergraduate business courses: The impact of integration. //Journal of Management Education//, //30//(2), 276-294.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Greenberg, D. N., Clair, J. A., & Maclean, T. L. (2007). Enacting the role of management professor: Lessons from Athena, Prometheus, and Asclepius. //Academy of Management Learning and Education//, //6//(4), 439-457.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Navarro, P. (2008). The MBA core curricula of top-ranked U.S. business schools: A study in failure? //Academy of Management Learning and Education//, //7//(1), 108-123.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Pfeffer, J., & Fong, C.T. (2002). The end of business schools? Less success than meets the eye. //Academy of Management Learning and Education//, //1//(1), 78-95.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Pharr, S. W. (2000). Foundational considerations for establishing an integrated business common core curriculum. //Journal of Education for Business//, //76//(1), 20-23.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Wren, D. A., Halbesleben, J. R., & Buckley, M. R. (2007). The theory-application balance in management pedagogy: A longitudinal update. //Academy of Management Learning and Education//, //6//(4), 484-492.

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