Service-learning is an instructional approach that combines meaningful community service with structured academic reflection, so that a project such as tutoring younger students, restoring a wetland or assisting at a food bank is paired with course content and guided reflection connecting the experience back to what students are meant to learn, rather than treated as volunteer work separate from the curriculum. It grew from experiential-education roots through the 1970s and 1980s and is now embedded in secondary and higher-education curricula in many countries, sometimes as a graduation requirement.
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Central QuestionHow can community service be used to meet both classroom learning objectives and societal needs? 1 Most Effective ForImproving students' understanding of classroom studies, application of theory, critical thinking and analysis 1 Classification
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Service-Learning's own live entity-description: it grew from experiential-education roots through the 1970s and 1980s.
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1. Service-learning, Wikipedia
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Service-learning is an educational approach that uses community service to meet both classroom learning objectives and societal needs.
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There is evidence of improved understanding of classroom studies, the application of theory, critical thinking and analysis.
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It has been used with students of all grades and stages.
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Associated With: Challenge-Based Learning, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-based_learning, second paragraph, foundation sentenceQuote, Associated With: Challenge-Based Learning, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-based_learning, second paragraph, foundation sentence
Challenge-based learning builds on the foundation of experiential learning, leans heavily on the wisdom of a long history of progressive education, shares many of the goals of service learning, and the activism of critical pedagogy.
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