Service Learning
Service learning is a pedagogically structured learning experience that combines academic coursework and community service to provide students with the opportunities to transfer the skills taught in the classroom to the “real” world.
Ideally, students work with community partners to identify strengths and areas of need, develop and implement projects that enhance those strengths or that meet identified needs, and then reflect on the value of the experience for the community and themselves. The community service office is your resource for implementing service-learning into your curriculum. The CSO can also assist in monitoring student progress. Please contact the community service coordinator for more information.
Resources
These organizations offer opportunities and/or information outside of the Wilkes University Office of Civic Engagement.
- Pennsylvania Campus Compact external website
PACC assists campuses with the development and enhancement of their service programs through trainings, technical assistance, grant making and resource development.
- Campus Compact external website
A searchable database of syllabi by discipline includes hundreds of examples of lesson plans and syllabi that integrate community-based learning. Disciplines vary widely, from chemistry, economics, environmental studies to sociology.
- Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) external website
Offers a searchable database of effective practices in community-based learning.
- National Youth Leadership Council external website
- Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning external website
- National Society for Experiential Education external website
- Wyoming Valley Habitat for Humanity external website
- Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross external website
- Acting Locally: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Environmental Studies, Harold Ward, ed.
- The Practice of Change: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's Studies , Barbara J. Balliet and Kerrissa Hefferman, eds.
- Life, Learning and Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Biology , David C. Brubaker and Joel H. Ostroff, eds.
- Working for the Common Good: Concepts and Models for Service-Leaning in Management , Paul C. Godfreey and Edward T. Grasso, eds.
- Service-Learning in Higher Education, Barbara Jacoby and Associates, Jossey-Bass, 1996
- Where's the Learning in Service-Learning, Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr. Jossey-Bass, 1999
- Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education , Edward Zlotkowski, ed., Anker Publishing, 1998
- Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service - Vols. I and II , Jane C. Kendall and Associates, National Society for Internships and Experiential Education, 1990