This personal experience of providing service becomes rich material for wholistic, experience-based learning. Activities become integral to class work, are treated as curriculum and processed interactively with the class. It is a basic principle of experiential education that learning comes with reflection upon significant actions. All participants in the service-learning process benefit from its outcomes. The quality of learning is enhanced for the student.
Teachers develop stronger ties with students and see significant results for their efforts.
Quality of life is enhanced for th e school and the community. Service-learning, partly because of its highly collaborative nature, stimulates personal and institutional growth and renewal. It promises to contribute much to the movement for educational excellence, as well as to community development.