Service-Learning @
Trinity
If you’ve just surfed in from Trinity, you
might be asking yourself, What Is Service-Learning?
This website is here to (try to) answer that question as well as
to provide resources for Trinity
Students, Faculty, and Community
Partners to use as we work together to strengthen our Northeast
DC community through engaging in community-based learning together.
Major funding for Trinity’s Service-Learning Program is provided
by the DC-Area CoRAL Network, and be sure
to check out our Recent Press.
If you’d like to meet all the partners involved in service-learning
at Trinity, be sure to check out our Community
Partners, our Faculty, our Staff,
and Campus Ministry.
Drop Us a Line for more
info!
Service-Learning and Social Change
Service-learning is a concept that is often misunderstood. We define
it as . . . “[P]articipation in an organized service activity
that meets identified community needs and reflects on service activity
as a means of gaining a deeper understanding of course content,
a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense
of civic responsibility.”
Source: A Service Learning Curriculum for Faculty
Service-Learning . . . places equal emphasis on service and learning
as educational requirements. Service-learning combines a course-based,
credit-bearing, educational experience in which students provide
service (as defined by the community-based organizations) and reflect
on the service activity as a means of gaining a better understanding
of course content.
It is a pedagogy that allows students to test theories with real
life experiences. Students are assessed not for performing a public
service, but rather for their reflective and analytical ability
to apply the course material to their service experience.
Community Based Research is . . . an extension of service-learning.
In CBR projects, service primarily focuses on the provision of research
and advocacy for community based organizations.
Source: Powerpoint presentation by Dr. Roxana Moayedi. Download
the Presentation as a PPT file.
For more extensive information on service-learning and CBL, go
to “What Is Service-Learning?” |
