Service Learning

I signed up to participate in volunteer activities at a local nursing home. My father worked there, so I have been doing it many times before. But where volunteers are very new to me. I need to understand the environment people respect and caring and how they are interacting with the residents, providing an opportunity for personal growth through integrity, justice and good governance. Although I hesitated for a while, my experience is very positive. I do not have the qualification to support in many ways, such as volunteer's irrelevant experience and skills.

Character.org defines service learning as follows. "Service learning differs from community services in several important respects: service learning includes student leadership, contemplation and academic elements.When their services are completed, their efforts are You can internalize what it does to help, while learning more about geography, mathematics and science. "

To compare community service and service learning, it must be decided for the service, and for each service: the definition of community service and service learning. Community service, in the Cambridge English-English dictionary "Paying unpaid work to help other people, and serious things criminally enough young offenders to imprison" (Cambridge) Senior learner's dictionary 2004 ). Community service defined in the implementation of community service work done for the same, so that people can keep one goal and state in the world, while striving to achieve a person's professional degree. The motivation behind the community service definition (actually, what is it?), Community service and (why) goals: In this article, the benefits of providing nature and community, to address the theme 4 Would you consider splitting into one part? ), Problem area and place (Can I do it somewhere?

Service learning is based on experiential education - learning by doing. The difference between service learning and "pure" experience learning is on two aspects: (1) The purpose of service learning is to guide learners to the actual environment where the main motivation is service. Experience, reflect what happened during the experience and the result of the result. It is democratic as it also requires students to cooperate with teachers to develop educational strategies so that students can learn on their own.