SERVICE LEARNING (SL)


 
  


Course Outline

GO TO ==> week 1 :: 2 :: 3 :: 4 :: 5 :: 6 :: 7 :: 8 :: 9 :: 10

1. March 31         Introduction to the course and ethics.  Service Learning Site Selection.
Moral Agency: The Self, The Profession, The Society
Identity, Knowledge and Community
(Knowledge, Attitude, Skills/Action, see Cajete’s Model in Roy & Larsen, 2002 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/roy/03roy.html)
Guest Speaker (10:45 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.): Kathy O’Byrne, Director, UCLA Center for Community Learning http://www.college.ucla.edu/up/ccl/

Readings on Ethics and Morality:

Recommended:

Open Space Methodology – “is based on an approach to transnational (global/political) literacy, in which participants are encouraged to engage critically with issues related to global and local issues and perspectives and think about how their way of seeing the world and acting in it are connected to notions of justice and injustice. This approach draws on post-colonial theory and critical pedagogies, as well as on a constructivist understanding of the learning process. It aims to develop skills that will enable participants to engage with difference and deal with conflict in different ways and to develop skills to look at the world through different cultural logics.” http://www.globaleducationderby.org.uk/learningaboutothers/os.html

This course will engage “open space methodology” which has the following principles http://www.globaleducationderby.org.uk/learningaboutothers/os.html:
a) that each individual brings valid knowledge to the open space(everyone is a pot of knowledge!)
b) that this knowledge deserves respect(everyone should have the right to express themselves without fear of being ‘looked down’ by others and should be committed to listening to others with respect)
c) that all knowledge is related to who you are and where you come from(we construct the lenses we look through at the world in our contexts and interactions with others)
d) that all knowledge is partial and incomplete(we all see the world through different lenses that continuously change and there are no universally better or clearer lenses)
e) that all knowledge can and should be questioned through dialogue(we should engage critically with actions, thoughts and beliefs of both ourselves and others as we need different lenses – other perspectives - to challenge and transform our own views).

2. April 7          Ethics in LIS Education.  Exercise on Moral Decision Making.
Team Discussion 1: Service Learning – Critical Service Learning and Getting Started.

Required Readings:

  • Peterson, Lorna. “A Brief History of Service Learning in LIS," In: Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice, edited by Loriene Roy, Kelly Jensen, and Alex Hershey Meyers.  Chicago: ALA Editions, 2009; pp. 1-4. 
  • Chu, Clara M. “Working from Within: Critical Service Learning as Core Learning in the MLIS Curriculum,” In: Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice, edited by Loriene Roy, Kelly Jensen, and Alex Hershey Meyers.  Chicago: ALA Editions, 2009; pp. 105-123. 
  • Masucci, Matt and Renner, Adam.  "Reading the Lives of Others: The Winton Homes Library Project A Cultural Studies Analysis of Critical Service Learning for Education," High School Journal, 84(1): 36-?; Oct/Nov 2000.
  • Carbo, Toni and Smith, Martha M.  “Global Information Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives on Past and Future Research,” JASIS&T, 59(7): 1111-1123, 2008. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118635915/HTMLSTART.  Includes a bibliography of over 400 entries.
  • Capurro, Rafael.  “Information Ethics,” CSI Communications (Computer Society of India), 28(12): 7-10, June 2005.  http://www.capurro.de/csi_June2005infoeth.pdf
  • Froehlich, Thomas.  “Feminism and Intercultural Information Ethics,” International Journal of Information Ethics, v. 2: 1-16, Nov. 2004. http://www.i-r-i-e.net/issue_2.htm
  • Wengert, Robert G. "Some Ethical Aspects of Being an Information Professional." Library Trends, 49:3 (Winter 2001): 486-509.

Recommended:

  • Carbo, Toni and Almagno, Stephen. "Information Ethics: The Duty, Privilege and Challenge of Educating Information Professionals." Library Trends, 49:3 (Winter 2001), 510-518.
  • Deal, Claire. (2006). Learning with Conviction: Service Learning, Social Documentary, and Transformative Research. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 2, Issue 1, Article 2. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol2/iss1/art2
  • .Froehlich, Thomas.  “A Brief History of Information Ethics,” bid: Textos universitarios de biblioteconomía I documentació, 13, December 2004.  http://www.ub.es/bid/13froel2.htm
  • Mehra, Bharat. (2004). Service Learning in Library and Information Science (LIS) Education: Connecting Research and Practice to Community. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 1, Article 3. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol1/iss1/art3
  • Redner, Harry.  “Ethics and the Individual,” In: Ethical Life: The Past and Present of Ethical Cultures.  New York: Rowman & Littletfield Publishers, 2001; pp. 291-327.
  • Roy, Loriene and Larsen, Peter.  "Oksale. An Indigenous Approach to Creating a Virtual Library of Education Resources." DLib Magazine, 8(3), March 2002.  www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/roy/03roy.html
  • .Smith, Martha M. "Infoethics for Leaders: Models of Moral Agency in the Information Environment." Library Trends, 40:3 (Winter 1992): 553-570.
  • Smith, Martha M.  "Global Information Ethics: A Mandate for Professional Education," Proceedings of the 68th IFLA Council and General Conference, 18-24th August 2002; Glasgow.  www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/056-093e.pdf
  • Swan, John. "Helpful Librarians and Hurtful Books," Catholic Library World 59: 271-74, May/June 1988.
  • LEGAL issues:

3. April 14        NO CLASS > Service Learning – Fieldwork.

4. April 21        Professional Association Code of Ethics, Core Values, Rules of Conduct. 
Section one meets at 10:00 a.m., Section two meets at noon
12:00 p.m. PANEL: Jonathan Furner [ASIS&T], Anne Gilliland [SAA, ICA], Mary N. Maack [ALA, IFLA?], Virginia Walter [ALSC, Children's LIbrary Bill of Rights]
Team Discussion 2: Topic of the Week.
Team Discussion 3: Service Learning – Pre-reflection.

Readings:

Review several of the following professional association codes of ethics/conduct and related statements (to see others: go to bibliography on course website or do your own search):

Recommended:

    • Hoffman, Kathy.  “Professional Ethics and Librarianship,” Texas Library Journal, 7-11,Fall 2005.  http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj81/Ethics.pdf
    • Koehler, Wallace.  “Professional Values and Ethics as Defined by “The LIS Discipline,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 44(2): 99-119, Spring 2003.

5. April 28        Dimensions of Diversity: Identity, Difference, Power and Multiculturalism.
Team Discussion 4: Service Learning – Theory and Action.

Readings:

  • Kellner, Douglas.  Cultural Studies and Ethics.  http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/CSETHIC.htm
  • Cole, Jim.  Beyond Prejudice.  http://www.beyondprejudice.com
  • Crenshaw, Kimberle. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color," Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1991. http://www.jstor.org/pss/1229039 OR Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color," IN: The Public Nature of Private Violence, edited by Martha Fineman and Rixanne Mykitiuk. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, Inc., 1994.
  • Dyson, M. Ed. (2003). “Giving Whiteness a Black Eye: Escavating White Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions.”  In: Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion (pp. 99-125). New York: Basic Books.
  • Honma, Todd . Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 2, Article 2., 2005. http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol1/iss2/art2
  • Palmeri, Jason.  “Disability Studies, Cultural Analysis and the Critical Practice of Technical Communication Pedagogy,” Technical Communication Quarterly, 15(1): 49-65.
  • Sedgwick, Eve K.  “Introduction: Axiomatic,” In: Epistemology of the Closet.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, updated 2008; pp. 1-?.

Recommended:

  • Anner, J. (1996). “Introduction.”  In J. Anner (Ed.), Beyond Identity Politics (pp. 5-13).  Boston, MA: South End Press.
  • Hinman, Lawrence M.  Race, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Ethical Theory: Multimedia Resources on Race, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Ethical Theory. http://ethics.sandiego.edu/theories/Race/index.asp
  • Hinman, Lawrence M.  Race, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism: A Survey of Multimedia Resources.  http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Applied/Race/index.asp
  • Darder, A. and Torres, R.D. (2003). “Shattering the "Race" Lens: Toward a Critical Theory of Racism.”  In: The Critical Pedagogy Reader, edited by A. Darder, M. Baltodano, and R.D. Torres, (pp. 245-261).  New York: Routledge-?   (Originally published in 1999).
  • .Gamson, Joshua.  “Must Identity Movements Self-destruct: A Queer Dilemma,” Social Problems, 42(3): 390-407, August 1995.
  • Grande, S.M. (2000).  American Indian Geographies of Identity and Power: At the Crossroads of Indigena and Mestizaje.  Harvard Educational Review, 70(4): 467-498.
  • Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (2000).  The Diversity Project: Institutionalizing Multiculturalism or Managing Differences?  Academe, 86(5): 38-42.
  • .Weiler, K.  Freire and a Feminist Pedagogy of Difference.  In: Politics of Liberation: Paths to Freire, edited by Peter L. McLaren and C. Lankshear.  New York: Routledge, 1994; pp. 12-40.

6. May 5          NO CLASS > Service Learning - Fieldwork.

7. May 12         Power, Authority and Critical Consciousness in Information Practice/Institutions.
Team Discussion 5: Topic of the Week.
Team Discussion 6: Service Learning – Reflection.
Due May12th-26th: Journal (include timesheet)
Readings:

Recommended:

  • Harris, Cheryl I.  “Whiteness as Property,” In: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, edited by Kimberleé Crenshaw et al.  New York: the New Press, 1995; pp. 276-291.
  • Menezes Jordão, Clarissa.  “Thinking Critically of Critical Teaching: Critical Pedagogies Revisited,” Situation Analysis, 4: 21-30, Autumn 2004.
  • Schwartz, Joan and Cook, Terry Cook.  "Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory," Archival Science, 2: 119, 2002. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/edc/Schwartz&Cook.pdf
  • Yoshino, Kenji.  “Covering,” Yale Law Journal, 111(4): January 2002  http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/111-4/YoshinoFINAL.pdf   Subsequently developed into a book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights.  New York: Random House, 2006.  http://www.kenjiyoshino.com/covering.htm

8. May 19         Issues of Equity in Information Services and Justice.
Team Discussion 7: Topic of the Week.
Team Discussion 8: Topic of the Week.

Readings:

Recommended:

9. May 26         Change Strategies. Examination of information professional personal blogs.
Team Discussion 9: Topic of the Week.
Team Discussion 10: Topic of the Week.

Readings:

Recommended:

10. Jun 2         Advocacy and Action.  Professionalism, Ethos and Ethics.
Panel:

  • Yolanda Alaniz, MLIS from UCLA, is an activist archivist and currently a Youth Services Librarian for County of Los Angeles Public Library, co-author of Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance and Vice President of REFORMA, LA Chapter http://library.csun.edu/reformala/.
    http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/alaniz.htm
  • Gerardo (Gary) Colmenar, MLIS from UCLA, is Librarian of Asian American Studies, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Studies, Native American Studies and Philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara, and Executive Director and Past President of APALA. http://www.apalaweb.org/
  • Rhonda Neugebauer, MLS from Emporia State University, is Latin American Bibliographer (a specialist on materials from and about Latin American and Iberian countries, and the Latino/as populations in the U.S.) at the Tomás Rivera Library, University of California, Riverside, and from 2006-2008, worked with Dana Lubow, librarian at LA Valley College, to send a bookmobile and 3000 Spanish language books to libraries in Cuba, Province of Granma, City of Bayamo. http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/danalubow/1/tpod.html and http://bookmobile.wordpress.com/

Due: Paper assignment (extended to Friday, June 5th, 5 pm)

Readings & Preparation:

Recommended Readings and Resources: