What are the benefits of interdisciplinary service-learning?
Integrating service-learning and interdisciplinary learning can provide far reaching benefits to students, communities and campuses. Student impact: College and university students report the development of key skills and attributes resulting from their participation in interdisciplinary service-learning, including gaining the ability to think beyond traditional academic disciplines and being more adept at integrating and applying what they are learning. Interdisciplinary service-learning introduced in the early years of study can help to foster the contribution of positive attitudes about working in communities and in teams. Community impact: Community partners report greater understanding of resources available across the campus that can be marshaled to support and address community identified problems when more than one discipline is involved in a service-learning partnership. They also report that interdisciplinary student involvement allows a wider range and higher quality of serv
