Service-Learning Australia

What Service-Learning Is and Is Not

America’s National Commission on service-learning, summarises what service-learning is and what it is not.

Service-learning:

  • links to academic content and standards
  • involves young people in helping to determine and meet real, defined community needs
  • includes on-going, meaningful reflection and analysis
  • is reciprocal in nature, benefiting both the community and the service providers by combining a service experience with a learning experience
  • can be used in any subject area so long as it is appropriate to learning goals
  • works at all ages, even among young children


Service-learning is not:

  • an episodic volunteer program
  • an add-on to an existing school or tertiary curriculum
  • the accumulation of a set number of community service hours in order to graduate.
 
Home Home Defining Service-Learning What Service-Learning Is and Is Not

Primary

Moving community
service to service-learning.
Focus: Aged Care.
Read more...

Primary

This environmental unit won
an Award for Innovative
Curriculum.
Read more...

Secondary

Students at an Intensive
English Centre and
Aged Care residents .
Read more...

Secondary

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit.
Nulla auctor tortor eu.
Read more...