Other Definitions of Service Learning
- The National and Community Service Act of 1990 defines service learning with a set of four criteria:
- 1. Under which students learn and develop through participation in thoughtfully organized service experiences that meet actual community needs and that are coordinated in collaboration with the school and community;
- 2. That is integrated into the students' academic curriculum or provides structured time for a student to think, talk, or write about what the student did and saw during the actual service activity;
- 3. That provides students with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations in their own communities; and
- 4. That enhances what is taught in school by extending student learning beyond the classroom and into the community and helps to foster the development of a sense of caring for others.
- "'Classic' service learning places its major emphasis on student and faculty reflection on the service experience. It is designed to improve teaching and to advance civic consciousness and moral character among students."
- Ira Harkavy, Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania
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