Kaleido Scope

Guide to Service Learning

Relevant service with a community partner: the community placement is related to course content, and vice versa. Community-campus partnerships that are mutually beneficial. Students engage in ...
Kaleido Scope

Service Learning and Undergraduate Research

The UAB Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research connects students, faculty, and community nonprofit partners to enrich student academic learning, promote civic engagement, and to ...
EdSurge

Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

The names of the students mentioned have been changed for this story. In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students ...
Education Week

With Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson

Last weekend I was on #elemchat with my colleagues near and far on Twitter and the topic of discussion was service learning. Service learning can be defined in many ways but it is primarily when ...
Purdue University

Spotlight on Service-learning: Suining Ding

Suining Ding, Ph.D., is a professor of Interior Design at Purdue Fort Wayne, and she is a lifetime scholar dedicated to curating service-learning experiences for herself, her students, and the broader ...
Miami University

Using Experiential Learning as Service-Learning

Service-Learning Projects have the potential to transform student learning. Currently, over a semester timeframe, students have the potential to develop a sense of social responsibility and an ethic ...
EdSurge

Schools Must Connect Learning to Real-World Experience. Service Learning Can Help.

As communities across the country prepare for the upcoming school year, there is cause for long-awaited optimism. Many students will be returning to the classroom with different kinds of skills and ...
Purdue University

‘Purdue Pursuits’: Service-Learning Fellows Program

Pamela Sari’s interest in service-learning first blossomed several years ago while pursuing her doctorate degree at Purdue. “When I was a graduate student, I took an American studies class called ...
Inside Higher Ed

Reimagining Service Learning in the Digital Age

During COVID-19, many instructors are asking important questions about how to bring a sense of humanity into their hybrid or online classrooms. This discourse may rightly lead us to wonder how to ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

‘Service Learning’ Becomes the New Standard at Tulane U.

New Orleans Tulane University students have been reveling during Mardi Gras and enjoying jazz in the French Quarter for more than a century. But last week, as another Mardi Gras celebration kicked off ...
Morehead State University

Service Learning

Students involved with service learning can reflect on their experiences to gain a deeper understanding of course content and a broader appreciation of the discipline, improving critical thinking ...
University of Wyoming

Service Learning

Service-learning is a pedagogical and andragogical approach in which student learning outcomes are realized concomitantly with meeting the needs of a community organization. Service-learning also ...