Title: From charity to solidarity: the promise and challenges of service learning in labour courses

Authors: Kimberly Christensen

Addresses: Economics Program, Sarah Lawrence College, 1 Mead Way, Science Building Room 317, Bronxville NY 10708, USA

Abstract: Service learning, an underutilised pedagogy in economics, provides the perfect vehicle for the introduction of heterodox approaches that value the role of institutions, ideologies, laws, and history in economic outcomes. This article describes the author's experience with one such course that combines in-class discussion of labour economics and labour history with service learning in worker centres and similar alt-labour organisations.

Keywords: service learning; labour movement; worker centre; pedagogy; labour economics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2017.089334

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2017 Vol.8 No.4, pp.389 - 405

Received: 28 Apr 2017
Accepted: 24 Oct 2017
Published online: 17 Jan 2018 *

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