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Service Learning

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Your Guide to Service Learning


Definition | Statistics| Participating Learn and Serve Bonner Schools | Testimonials| Resources


Welcome to the Service Learning Page. Here you'll find information about what service learning is, some statistics on its improvements in society and active Bonner schools involved in it.

 

Definition of Service Learning

This is a brief definition of service learning as taken from this page

 

  • Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service, frequently youth service, throughout the community. As a teaching methodology, it falls under the philosophy of experiential education. More specifically, it integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage lifelong civic engagement, and strengthen communities for the common good.
 

Service Learning Statistics

Here are some statistics on service learning and its effects on participants communities.

  • In the past several years, service-learning has spread rapidly throughout communities, K-12 institutions, and colleges and universities. In a recent survey of its member institutions, Campus Compact gathered information on trends in community involvement and service across a good cross-section of the nation's colleges and universities (Compact, 2001). During the 1999-2000 academic year, among the 349 campuses that responded to the survey.
  • 712,000 students had participated in some form of service
  • 12.2 percent of faculty were offering service-learning courses
  • 6,272 service-learning courses were taught
  • 9 percent required service-learning courses for graduation

 

 

Participating Learn and Serve Bonner Schools

These are the Bonner schools which participate in a form of Learn and Serve

  1. Berea College
  2. Carson Newman College
  3. Concord University
  4. Davidson College
  5. DePauw University
  6. Dickinson College
  7. Emory and Henry College
  8. Guilford College
  9. Hamilton College
  10. Hood College
  11. Lynchburg College
  12. Macalaster College
  13. Mars Hill College
  14. Maryville College
  15. Middlesex County College
  16. Morehouse College
  17. Pitzer College
  18. Rider University
  19. Ripon College
  20. St. Mary's College of California
  21. Stetson University
  22. The College of New Jersey
  23. Tougaloo College
  24. Tusculum College
  25. Union College
  26. University of Alaska-Anchorage
  27. University of Louisville
  28. Washburn University
  29. Washington and Lee University
  30. Whitworth University

 

 

 

Testimonials

Here are some testimonials of Bonner students who have particiapted in a Learn and Serve program.

 

 

Resources:

Here is a list of articles and periodicals regarding service learning from a wide variety of sources provided by Servicelearning.org- Click Here


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