Service Learning

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Patrick, Carol-Joy
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Sonia Fearns

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2014
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Service-learning as a unique approach to WIL and is growing in popularity in Australian and New Zealand universities both as a model for WIL and in its own right as a powerful way to engage students and the university with community needs and citizenship growth. Many universities use service-learning within a discipline context. A unique advantage is that unlike WIL, which is generally offered as a discipline-based senior experience, service-learning can be designed to enable students to step outside their discipline and experience the integration of work and study in the early years of their degree. Service-learning has a multitude of definitions. Many existing WIL definitions can be readily adapted to represent the features of service-learning with the proviso that service-learning is identified as being specifically enacted for community or not-for-profit benefit and that the student is engaged in serving while learning. The Furco (1996) model (Figure 3.1) demonstrates how service-learning bridges the gap between activities which can otherwise be single-purposed and describes a curriculum approach with the dual purposes of service and learning for reciprocal benefit for the service provider and recipient.

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HERDSA Guide: Work integrated learning in the curriculum

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© 2014 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher’s website for further information.

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