"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it?s the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
Community partners are integral to the success of our service learning students. Community partners serve as co-educators who facilitate onsite learning and reflection for CSUCI students, resulting in an integrative teaching approach that provides a foundation for student learning.
By working with our community partners students are able to:
Community voices seeks to understand how campus-community partnerships can truly be mutually beneficial for all involved. The qualitative study helps to fill a significant gap in the literature while providing practical suggestions for higher education campuses and their partners to consider. Download of copy of the Executive Summary or full report here.
The Community Partner Service Learning Guidebook is designed to be a resource tool for community partners involved with service learning faculty/courses.The resource guide provides you with guidance on your role as a co-educator, designing a service learning project, preparing students to serve at your organization, and facilitating student reflection activities. Download your copy of the Community Partner Service Learning Guidebook here (PDF, 299KB)
Structured reflection is integral to service learning because it connects and reinforces in-class work, course readings, and service learning experiences. It provides an opportunity for students to think critically about service experiences, examine and challenge personal values, beliefs, and opinions, while allowing students to ask questions, share ideas and experiences, challenge current solutions to community issues and develop plans to address community needs. Following are reflection websites and activities/resources.
Building Citizens: A Critical Reflection and Discussion Guide for Community Service Participants, Margo Shea and Kevin Mattson, 1998. This guide is designed to help community service programs incorporate a deliberative, civic dimension into their programs by guiding participants in reflection that makes explicit connections between service and critical, enlivened citizenship. Download your copy of the guide here.
Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators offers insight to the importance of reflection in the classroom and includes ideas for many reflection activities. To download a copy of the manual click here.
This National Service Learning Clearinghouse website includes general reflection links offering ideas, activities and manuals as well as reflection links geared towards specific areas of learning. To view a list of the reflection articles click here.
FOR MOR REFLECTION IDEAS CLICK HERE!
For answers to frequently asked questions about service learning click here.
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