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Article: The controversy over service learning
- Article from:
- NEA Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright National Education Association Sep 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Service learning gives citizenship a facelift. But are its effects more than skin deep?
Definition please.
Take community service projects, integrate them into the curriculum, and you've got service learning. The goal of this merger: to teach students citizenship through experience.
Three factors distinguish service learning from traditional volunteering or community service: in class preparation, the service itself, and structured reflection.
Arranging for students to volunteer in a nursing home is community service. Combining the project with an examination of the physiology of aging or cross-cultural attitudes toward the elderly-that's service learning.
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