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Article: Service-learning in the United States and South Africa: a comparative analysis informed by John Dewey and Julius Nyerere.(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Service-learning is a teaching strategy increasingly used within higher education (Campus Compact, 2005) both in the United States and abroad (e.g., Australia, Egypt, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea). The International Partnership for Service-learning and Leadership (IPSL), a nonprofit organization advocating for service-learning experiences linked to study abroad, states that "the idea behind service-learning, of linking the classroom with the larger world, theory with practice, is an idea of worldwide potency" (Tonkin, 2004, p. 5). This paper explores the similarities and differences between service-learning in higher education in the U.S. and South ...