Title: Service-learning in higher education
Description: Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of teaching and learning. Students are encouraged to develop links to local institutions, volunteer their time, and create a special bond between the university and the community in which they live. Service-learning has become a very popular alternative to standard courses in higher education and is gaining significant popularity. This book takes a serious look at the unintended consequences and alternative conceptualizations of service-learning and explores what service-learning could offer us in the future.
Subjects: Service learning, Community and college, Higher Education, Curricula, Student volunteers in social service, Experiential learning, Student service, Education, higher, curricula, EDUCATION, Higher, Philosophy & theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Open learning, home learning, distance education
Places: United States