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Article: Service-learning responds to technological enchantment and intellectual isolation.
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Project Innovation (Alabama). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Student participation in service-learning can counter the over-reliance on technology to improve education. Furthermore, service-learning raises consciousness about the mutual obligations students and the surrounding community incur. This heightened social awareness instills a sense of caring for others in an educational system that tends to equate learning with individual effort.
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Discussing how service-learning could be taken more seriously throughout the academy, Edward Zlotkowski (1996) commented that educators who study and engage in service-learning should write for broader academic audiences, rather than singing to the choir of their ...