Service and Learning

Hidayat, Dadit and Pratsch, Samual. “Chapter 9, Principles for Success in Service-Learning—The Three Cs” The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning. Stoecker, Randy and Tyron, Elizabeth A. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009.

Guided Questions 1. Discuss the three Cs that lay out principles for success in service-learning. For each, identify the challenges presented in executing them for both community partners and student learners. Which of the 3 do you think is most important and why? 2. As far as commitment goes, do you think your community partner would describe it the same as the partners interviewed for this chapter? What does your level of commitment look like and do you think that the writers accurately describe the key elements of commitment? 3. How important is communication to the success of service-learning? What practices have you and your project partner for this class developed to foster good communication? How do you think WVU’s Center for Service and Learning helps facilitate the good communication necessary to make service-learning successful? Talk about how faculty involvement is important in the process… if you’ve had another service-learning course in the past, was the instructor involved? Did that help the project succeed? If you haven’t, imagine that a course in your major offered a service-learning component… how much and in what way should the instructor be involved? 4. What significance does compatibility have for service-learning? Discuss some of the ways the authors and the organizations they interviewed describe indicators of good compatibility. What are all the components of the project that need to be compatible? 5. Talk about the chapter’s conclusions. Do you believe that service-learning at WVU is “institution-centric”? What would your community partner say about this? Wrap up your discussion of the book chapter by offering your perspective as a student on the three Cs, but also put yourself in the shoes of the community and of WVU as an institution of higher education and write about how the perspectives of all stakeholders’ contrast and compare.

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