Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2004
Document Type
Article
Citation
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2004) 23
doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0023.018
Abstract
Documentation of the benefits of service-learning abound, and published case studies of successful service-learning programs may be found for a variety of disciplines. Faculty new to service-learning, however, are likely to find themselves facing a variety of unexpected challenges. While these challenges are neither insurmountable nor unknown to experienced service-karning practitioners, they can make starting a service-learning program remarkably time-consumingand unnecessarily frustrating. Unfortunately. pitfalls and program flops are rarely published. This chapter forewarns some of the challenges associated with service-learning and offers realistic approaches to dealing with them successfully.
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License: CC BY-NC-ND