Most people are familiar with the term volunteerism.
Many students may have volunteered while growing up through scouting, 4-H, church youth groups, or other organizations. Service-Learning is initially a difficult concept for people to understand. That is because people have many personal experiences with and prior knowledge about community service and volunteerism, which stress service. However, there is a distinction between any learning experience which occurs in the community and service-learning. What most people miss is that service-learning is the blending of both service and learning goals in such a way that both occur and are enriched by each other.