John Dewey and the Rebuilding of Urban Community: Engaging Undergraduates as Neighborhood Organizers.

Explores why service-learning students have only rarely been engaged directly as neighborhood organizers, then employs John Dewey's understanding of democracy to analyze one program which has succeeded in making widespread use of college students as front-line organizers. Describes how the complementarity between what students do at their neighborhood sites and what happens within the classroom generates great potential. (EV)