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Article: Service learning's impact on civic engagement.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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Abstract
A historic mission of higher education has been to produce citizens, yet traditional measures show that citizenship is declining. Educators are seeking pedagogical methods to increase civic engagement in students. One method that has received much attention is service learning, yet results have been mixed. The link between service learning and civic engagement may emerge, however, when the definition of engagement is expanded.
Introduction
Often the rhetoric around the benefits of civic commitment development in college students revolves around the need of society to have engaged citizens so that our democracy is strengthened ...