Changing the World from Classrooms to Communities: Designing and Disseminating a Service-Learning Curriculum for Teaching in a Formal Education Setting

摘要

To change the world is a growing desire among many of today’s student populations, portrayed increasingly across the spectrum of media, social trends and career pursuits. While the demand grows among students for community-oriented and socially-responsible opportunities, the offerings in educational institutions must respond to these emerging requests with new and innovative academic programs. This text emphasizes the role of the developing discipline of service-learning in channeling these energies and providing students with deep and meaningful academic experiences. Its content seeks to combat misconceptions of service-learning as simply an extra-curricular activity and provide tangible methods for incorporating its concepts into various levels of formal education. The teaching methodology of The $100 Solution™ is utilized as a prime model for disseminating service-learning curricula to students of various disciplines, in domestic and study abroad courses, and at both the university and high school levels.