Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Commons^™

Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

When university Spanish programs integrate a service learning pedagogy into their curriculum, they establish mutually beneficial relationships with the local Latino population. Indeed, all participants benefit: College Spanish students deepen their learning experience, Latino students in public school ESL programs receive individualized tutoring, and the college professor emerges from academic isolation to do the work of a public intellectual.