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Dr. Meta Mendel-Reyes
Director of Service Learning; Associate Professor of General Studies
Trades,
Room 202
CPO 2170
Phone: 859-985-3940
Fax: 859-985-3809
E-Mail:
At Berea College since 2000
| Degrees |
- Ph.D. , University
of California at Berkeley,
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| Courses |
- Political
Science/Women’s Studies/Black Studies 202: Women and African Americans
in Politics
- General
Studies 203: U.S. Traditions
- General
Studies/Women ’s Studies 244: Service, Citizenship, and Community
- General
Studies/Women’s Studies 114: Appalachian Women’s
Leadership
- Black
Studies/Women’s Studies 203: Women in the Civil Rights
Movement
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| Special Interests |
- Service-Learning
- Democracy and Social Change
- Race, Gender, and Class
- Activist Theater
- Women’s Basketball
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| Affiliations |
- National
Society for Experiential Education
- Educators
for Community Engagement: Founding Member and Steering Committee.
- Appalachian
Studies Association.
- Kentuckians
for the Commonwealth
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| Papers and Publications |
- Reclaiming
Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory (New York: Routledge,
1995).
- "Self-Rule
or Selves-Rule? A Problem in Democratic Theory and Practice," POLITY
31 (Fall 1999).
- "A
Pedagogy for. Citizenship: Service Learning and Democratic Education," in
Jeffrey Howard and Robert Rhoads, ed., Academic Service Learning: A
Pedagogy of Action and Reflection, New Directions for Teaching and
Learning Series No.73 (Spring 1998), pp. 31-38.
- "Teaching/Theorizing/Practicing
Democracy," in Richard Battistoni and William Hudson, ed., Experiencing
Citizenship: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Political
Science, Monograph Series on Service- Learning in the Disciplines (Washington
DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1997), pp. 15- 34.
- Review
of Francesca Polletta, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in
American Social Movements (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
2002). Perspectives on Politics I (Fall 2003).
- Review
of Lord, We’re Just Trying to Save Your Water: Environmental
Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South (Gainesville: University
Press of Florida, 2002). Appalachian Journal 31 (Fall 2003): 110-112.
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| Research Programs |
- Student
Political Engagement: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching Political Engagement Project.
- Service
learning as education for democracy.
- Teaching
diversity.
- Community
organizing and social change in Appalachia
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