Service learning goes beyond volunteering or fundraising. It has explicit learning objectives and involves real-world skills and critical analysis. As service learning has taken root in schools and ...

Two new service-learning reflection journals are available through Purdue's Jetpack mobile application. These academic tools were created to help students with service-learning and academic community ...

Despite the popularity of service learning, it is sometimes criticized for its lack of academic rigor. This piece provides a counterpoint to that argument by describing a LIS service-learning course ...

Over the past two months I have conducted service learning at my local Farmers Market, called the Fulton Street Farmers Market. Founded in 1922 and located in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, they have ...

Service-Learning Projects have the potential to transform student learning. Currently, over a semester timeframe, students have the potential to develop a sense of social responsibility and an ethic ...

You don't need to be a teacher to recognize that important student learning takes place outside of the classroom. Service learning is an intentional instructional strategy used by schools across the ...

Service-learning is a pedagogical and andragogical approach in which student learning outcomes are realized concomitantly with meeting the needs of a community organization. Service-learning also ...

Relevant service with a community partner: the community placement is related to course content, and vice versa. Community-campus partnerships that are mutually beneficial. Students engage in ...

Service learning combines meaningful service with instruction and reflection to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. You can get involved through CSTEP’s Campus ...