You don't need to be a teacher to recognize that important student learning takes place outside of the classroom. Service learning is an intentional instructional strategy used by schools across the ...

Service learning goes beyond volunteering or fundraising. It has explicit learning objectives and involves real-world skills and critical analysis. As service learning has taken root in schools and ...

Each year, thousands of students at the University engage with our local community through service-learning courses, volunteering or by participating in community-based research. By doing so, students ...

Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst aren’t just learning about the history of social change, they’re practicing it. The Office of Civic Engagement and Service Learning promotes the ...

Many U.S. universities are located in older, inner-city communities, where problems such as blighted buildings, abandoned spaces, and crime can make the areas unattractive to prospective students and ...

BETTY MEDINA LICHTENSTEIN used to dread the beginning of the school year, when students from colleges and universities around Holyoke, Mass., would descend on her tiny community organization, Enlace ...

Guam’s public high school students are required by law to have a set amount of service learning hours to graduate. The Ayuda Foundation created the Guam Service Learning website, with the help of a ...

Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...