What is Service-Learning

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An experiential, pedagogical approach to learning where students, typically in secondary and post-secondary settings, volunteer in the local community while learning about the issues affecting the community in the classroom. Learn more in: Youth-Led Action Research: Lessons Learned From a University-Community Partnership in Washington DC

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An educational approach that combines learning goals and objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting the needs of marginalized individuals or groups. Learn more in: Service-Learning and Social Justice for College and University Students: Replacing Memorization with Meaning

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A method of incorporating community outreach into educational experiences. Through SL, students may gain further understanding of and experience in their fields of study while addressing needs identified in their communities and gaining greater awareness of social responsibility through the guided reflections of their experiences. Learn more in: Moving Towards Translanguaging: Service-Learning That Leverages Emerging Bilinguals' Linguistic Development

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An approach that engages participants in community-based projects along with an emphasis on reflection with the hope of developing civic-minded individuals. Service-learning, unlike volunteerism, means that participants are actively engaged in both theory and practice, hopefully resulting in praxis. Learn more in: Social Foundations of Education and Service-Based Field Experiences: Critical Foundations for Socially Just Educators

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Any carefully monitored service experience in which students have intentional learning goals and reflect actively on what they are learning. Learn more in: Beyond Critical Race Theory: Infusing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Into the K-16 Curriculum

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An educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Learn more in: Using Service-Learning Field Placements to Radically Transform Teacher Education From the Inside Out: The College Pals Model

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An experiential approach to teaching and learning used in educational settings through which youth or adult learners engage in activities that address identified community needs. Learn more in: The Disciplining and Professionalization of Community Engagement: The Master's Degree

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An educational approach that combines course learning objectives with community service. Service-learning is connected to curriculum, based in mutual partnerships, and includes student reflections on learning goals. Learn more in: Learning Together: Intergenerational Experiences for Pre-Service Art Educators

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Is a course-based, credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organised service activity that meets identified community goals. Learn more in: Facilitating Active Citizenship in Students through the Strengthening of University-Community Partnerships

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A teaching and learning method that involves community engagement. Learn more in: Critical Service-Learning: Vehicle to Social Justice Education

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A pedagogical approach that moves individuals beyond service for the purpose of doing good. Service-learning is part of the fabric of a learning experience where the learning of content is applied while addressing a defined community need alongside the community. Learn more in: Pedagogical Approaches and Service-Learning in Teacher Preparation

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The reflective synthesis of dialectical relations between course objectives and community service. Learn more in: International Service-Learning: Study Abroad and Global Citizenship Development in a Post-Disaster Locale

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Pedagogical approach used by faculty in linking theory learned from the class into practice within the community. It is credit bearing, linked to course goals, and requires faculty supervision and formal assessment. Learn more in: Preparing Teacher Candidates for Diverse School Environments

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A flexible pedagogy organized around learning goals that provides meaningful service activities that address real community needs. Learn more in: Using Action Research to Promote Meaningful E-Service-Learning Experience for Preservice Teachers

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An educational setting wherein students meet the need of a community partner while fulfilling a curricular requirement. Learn more in: The Transformative Nature of Community Engagement in the Arts

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The ability for students to apply their classroom knowledge to the larger community through service. Both the students learn from the experience and the community benefits by having additional labor. Learn more in: The 5M Approach: Layers of Reflection

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An experiential learning approach that balances student learning outcomes with service opportunities that aid the local or global community. Learn more in: CALL in Service-Learning: Innovations to Foster Second Language Development

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A strategy for teaching and learning that combines meaningful service to a community group or agency with content specific instructional strategies and reflection, to strengthen connections between content and application in real-world situations, and cultivate life-long civic engagement. Learn more in: Unconventional Delivery: Developing and Implementing Service-Learning in an Online Course

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The process where students learn through providing a service in a community program or school and includes guided self-reflection. Learn more in: Transformational Learning Theory and Service-Learning Projects: Impact on Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Teaching In-Risk Youth

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A type of pedagogy that incorporates community service with instruction. This teaching approach fosters learning through critical reflection and meaningful engagement with communities. Learn more in: International Healthcare Experiences: Caring While Learning and Learning While Caring

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A form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development. Learn more in: A University/Community Partnership to Bridge the Digital Divide

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Provides excellent conditions for this type of constructed knowledge to occur. When learners construct new knowledge most effectively when they are in the process of constructing something external which they can examine for themselves and discuss with others” ( Picard et al., 2004 , p. 262). Learn more in: Impacting and Influencing the System to Support Student Career Readiness, Voice, and Efficacy: Development of an Experiential Service-Learning Course

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Meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to deepen the learning experience, promote civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Learn more in: Connecting Pedagogy, Preparation, and Passion: An Engaging Approach to Preparing Leadership and Advocacy Skills in Pre-Service Teacher Education

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An educational experience in which course content is coupled with community-based activities for the mutual benefit of students and the community. Learn more in: Media Literacy Facilitation as Service Learning and Public Engagement

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A teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Learn more in: Service-Learning in the Clinical Experience of Alternative Certification Teacher Candidates: Service-Learning as a Mutual Partnership

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Students work with community partners to give back to the local community as part of an academic course, with the community project tied to course content in a given discipline. Learn more in: High-Impact Practices: Integrating the First-Year Experience with Service-Learning and Study Abroad

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Incorporates both learning and service in mutually beneficial partnerships and is inclusive of meaningful reflection that integrates the service experiences with the course material. Learn more in: Exploring the Impact of Service-Learning on Literacy Teachers' Self-Reported Empathy

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Knowledge acquired to the advantage of the community. It is a pedagogical proposal that is based on solidarity and active citizenship. It is a school model focused on the development of human and social formation. SL is an added value for society because it is a holistic, multifocal, dynamic educational proposal that combines learning with community service. It is an excellent exercise for citizenship, and an appropriate instrument for an autonomous, conscious, responsible and supportive way of life. It translates into passionate intelligence for life and social causes. Democracy works and active, responsible and collaborative participation. The SL presents, simultaneously, two objectives: the pedagogical one and the one of collaboration with the community. Therefore, it combines academic learning with community service and its main axes are: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be. SL is a pedagogical proposal based on solidarity and active citizenship. It is a school model focused on the development of human and social formation. It values solidarity, cooperation and altruism. Therefore, in applying the SL model, society would use socio-emotional education to improve self-knowledge and cooperation. Learn more in: Service Learning: The Essence of Social Inclusivity Through Transformational Education