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Service-Learning Pedagogy

PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING PEDAGOGY

  • Academic credit is for learning, not for service
  • Do not compromise academic rigor
  • Set learning goals for students
  • Establish criteria for the selection of community service placements
  • Provide educationally sound mechanisms to harvest the community learning
  • Provide supports for students to learn how to harvest the community learning
  • Minimize the distinction between the student’s community learning role and the classroom learning role
  • Re-think the faculty instructional role
  • Be prepared for uncertainty and variation in student learning outcomes
  • Maximize the community responsibility orientation of the course

Jeffrey Howard, Ed.  (1993).  Praxis I:  A Faculty Casebook on Community Service Learning.  Ann Arbor, MI:  Office of Community Service Learning Press, University of Michigan.

Last Updated: 11/18/11