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What is Service Learning

What is Service Learning?
Service-learning is a teaching method that combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. University service-learning programs involve students in organized community service that addresses local needs, while developing their academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.
 
Distinguishing Characteristics of Some
Common Student Community-Based Experiences
 

Community Service

Enhanced Academic Learning

Purposeful Civic Learning

Volunteering or Community Service

Yes

No

No

Co-Curricular Service Learning

Yes

No

Yes

Academic Service-Learning

Yes

Yes

Yes

Internship

Yes*

Yes

No

*Not all internships involve service in the community.
From “Three Necessary Criteria for Academic Service-Learning,” by Jeffrey Howard, 2001, Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning: Service-Learning Course Design Workbook, Companion Volume, p.13.
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