Service-Learning
Definitions of SERVICE-LEARNING
For Furco (1999), a well-implemented service-learning program must contain at least four components: meets a genuine community need (not prefabricated or hypothetical); integrates community service activities with academic studies; gives students the voice of creation and development of service projects; and provide structured time for students to reflect on how the service experience and academic studies relate to each other (p. 36).
Service Learning: Federal Definition
The Corporation for National Service (CNS) uses the service-learning definition listed in the 1993 National and Community Service Trust Act. Following is both the definition and the purpose of the Trust Act.
What is Service-Learning?
Service-learning combines service to the community with student learning in a way that improves both the student and the community. According to the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993: (23) SERVICE-LEARNING– The term 'service-learning' means a method–
A) under which students or participants learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that–
(i) is conducted in and meets the needs of a community;
(ii) is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service program, and with the community; and
(iii) helps foster civic responsibility; and
(B) that–
(i) is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students, or the educational components of the community service program in which the participants are enrolled; and
(ii) provides structured time for the students or participants to reflect on the service experience.
Examples of Service-Learning
Montpelier High School
Our service learning program integrates across the curriculum, utilizing a school greenhouse and gardens to provide food for the district's lunch program
EMINENCE INDPNT SCHOOL
Twice a year, students and teachers in Eminence, Kentucky, collaborate for three days on meaningful projects that serve their community.
Two Rivers Public School
The perfect problem connects content, student interest, and an authentic context.
Process of Service-Learning
Stages involved in SL
IPARDE Process
Planning SL project
What Service-Learning has for students?
Long lectures on Service-Learning
A lecture by
Dr jabari bodrick
National Youth Leadership Council
Research on Service-Learning
prof peter levin
Center for Information and Research in Civic Education (CIRCLE)
Mr Miguel Lopezzi
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, UC SANTA CRUZ