Talk:Service-learning

message: Anyone know of any organized opposition to service learning?  I'm personally against it, as it violates the spirit of volunteering by forcing people to volunteer.  Especially in the higher-education setting where students can be somewhat older.  Is it appropriate to ask 35 year old students to engage in volunteer work for a grade in their class, for example?  Forgive me if this is discussed in some other page, but at the very least there should be a link to such opposition somewhere in this page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.91.31 (talk) 03:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition 

message: I think that the engineering section should be moved to its own article, perhaps with a short mention of service-learning in engineering programs left here. Service-learning is much more widespread than this article suggests and it implies a disproportionate prevalence in engineering programs.Leep4life (talk) 20:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Split page

message: This page looks a little biased. 72.69.127.19 01:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After looking over this page, the only real bias I saw was the first line 'Service-learning is a successful method of teaching' which I removed.  Since I did not see any other bias, I removed the POV flag.  Sorry if I missed anything. dimo414 21:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: This definitely warrants a merge, with a redirect from here to the service-learning page.  
There's much debate about whether service-learning is written with a hyphen or without, but i think making this page the redirect is acceptable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fishfly (talk • contribs) 19:33, 17 August 2006  (UTC)
:Some quick Google searching seems to back that up, so I'll perform the move. --AbsolutDan (talk) 19:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The usual rule in English is that you hyphenate such terms as adjectives but not as nouns.  In "Service learning is cool," "service" acts as an adjective modifying learning, so they occupy different jobs in the sentences and shouldn't (by the usual rule) be hyphenated.  However in the sentence "Service-learning courses are cool" "service-learning" works as a single term to modify "courses".  "Service" isn't able to directly modify "learning" in that sentence because "learning" is acting as an adjective and only adverbs can modify adjectives.  That is to say, a Google search isn't helpful because it doesn't distinguish between different uses of the term.  NickelShoe (Talk) 02:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: If any user has suggestions for improving this page, I would be happy to be of service in any way. --Kenneth M Burke 01:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article improvement

message: A few common themes I noticed throughout the article:
# Usage of biased language
# Content written in passive voice
# Long, wordy paragraphs
# Repeated content
I have left comments on the shared Google doc showing exactly where I saw those themes occurring.
For our Peer Review you asked us to focus specifically on the order of the content, and I have a few reorganization suggestions.
* Under the heading "Models of Service-Learning"
::: - I would consider moving National Youth Council, Youth Service California and Florida Department of Ed. into another section. To me that content read more like evaluation guidelines, rather than an explanation of a model of SL.
* Critiques before Lists
::: - I suggest moving the Critiques section before the lists of Supporting Programs and Notable People. In it's current order, I wonder how many folks will navigate away to one of the links before getting a chance to read the critiques section
Overall I think with some paring down, and a few language tweaks, that the article will be very strong. Great work so far!!
Dsmith80 (talk) 21:22, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review and responses during the educational assignment in Winter 2015

message: I appreciate the good writing that has gone into this page but the organization leaves me a little confused. For instance, tucked away within under the major subheading of "Effect on Engineering Education" is the little section on Pedagogical Implications and Constructivism. This paragraph appears to deal with issues relevant to Service Learning as a whole, but it lies solely within the Engineering section. It might be better placed after this section (or related more directly to engineering.)
In general, it seems to me that the page as a whole is quite dominated by the engineering field. I was hoping to learn a good deal more about its usefulness in other areas and at different levels-- especially K-12--where its use is quite controversial. A wide-ranging discussion of both sides of the issue, with more examples, would be very helpful. Rosecrans 13:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page organization 

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