Ethics, Diversity and Change: A Service Learning Course Addressing Social Complexity and Justice Clara M. Chu

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Ethics, Diversity and Change: A Service Learning Course Addressing Social Complexity and Justice Clara M. Chu

Information for Struggle, Empowerment & Existence Inspired by the educator Paulo Freire, I strive to eradicate the ‘culture of silence’ created when individuals are oppressed by information practices/systems that deny them access and representation. Rome. March 2, 2005

LIS Education re: critical multiculturalism Critical multiculturalism COA Standards Mission of LIS institutions Core learning in Master’s programs Multiculturalism in LIS education: A needle in a haystack SDAG – finding voice and justice in information studies

IS 201. ETHICS, DIVERSITY AND CHANGE IN THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONS A complex information-intensive society presents ethical issues, such as access, intellectual property, freedom of expression, privacy, security and human rights, among others that require critical reflection. This service-learning course serves as a forum to discuss, learn and understand these ethical challenges of a multicultural information society that inform our societal, professional community and individual views, and impact our professional practice, decision making and public policy. An applied ethics approach is used to understand ethics in practice, the challenges presented in a dynamic multicultural user environment and the transformation that accompanies it in a rapidly changing world. This course also focuses on the role of information studies students in supporting equity of information access by utilizing campus resources, including their academic skills.

IS 201. Course goals (1) To introduce students to the meaning of ethics and what it means to be ethical from multiple perspectives: societal, professional and personal; (2) To acquaint students with the purpose of a professional code of ethics; (3) To have students recognize an ethical dilemma, examine it critically, apply a code of ethics, using a decision making model, to solve an ethical dilemma; (4) To use service-learning to help students understand the importance of community collaboration and outreach in order to address equity of information access; (5) To provide students with the opportunity to address information needs of underserved groups; and (6) To have students examine ethical issues and policy developed to address them.

What is service-learning? Even though there are many different interpretations of service-learning as well as different objectives and contexts, we can say that there is a core concept upon which all seem to agree: Service-learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content. ( /) /

Four Steps of Critical Service Learning 1. Pre-reflection – “one should reflect upon and politicize oneself (i.e., investigating who we are and what we stand for, as well as investigating our past service experiences, our preconceptions about the project and our predictions as to its outcome).” Theories assist in gaining an understanding of individual subjectivities, identities, positions and localities. 2. Theory – understand the construction of the world in theoretical terms and examine its relation to action (service learning). Potential theories to be examined are those posited by Bourrdieu (habitus, meaning-construction), Foucault (in relations to power), Freire [and others] (in pedgagogy), Gramsci (organic intellectual and hegemony), Matsuda [and Crenshaw, Delgado, etc.] (critical race theory), and others on feminist, post-colonial and queer theories. (See for example, PopCultures.com

Four Steps of Critical Service Learning (cont’d) 3. Action – “Drawing from a cultural studies tradition, action must be the accompanying harmony that helps inform and update theory.” Action in service learning can take on many forms as is particular and appropriate in the community partnership. It is suggested that the “action include some type of dialog and/or dialectical understanding with those whom you are partnering in order to assure that the voice of that partnering organization is evident in the action.” 4. Reflection – the foundation for the entire endeavor which “through critical reflection one has the opportunity to integrate and personally contextualize the experience of service learning.” A sharing space is created with the instructor and fellow students.

Assignments Service Learning (20 hours) Journal (25%) Paper (50%) Class discussion and presentation (25%)

Dialogue (Freire, 1970) in Information Practices, Education and Scholarship Respect – working with rather acting on Critical thinking – challenging normativities, naming privileges and re-drawing them, identifying differences Praxis – informed action enabling reciprocal learning Conscientization – awareness in order to transform reality to create social change

Contra el olvido Information for Struggle, Empowerment & Existence

"Enlightenment“ Robert Riddle, Lexington (Ky.) Public Library "Follow the Sun with Learning" Annie Kindland, Clay County (Fla.) Library System