What’s the difference between community service and service-learning?
Service-learning takes community service to the next level by incorporating service into education; it is a methodology of teaching that takes a service experience and uses reflection activities to make it relevant to the course and what students are learning. Service-learning helps students to apply what they are learning to practice much like internships and co-ops, except that it uses a service experience that benefits the community. Service-learning uses reflection activities, such as journals, small and large group discussions, one-on-one reflective sessions with the professor, etc. as tools for students to synthesize what they experienced during the service activity and apply it to what they are learning and discussing in the classroom.
