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Service Learning Today: The Perceptions Of Teachers And Service-Learning Professionals, Katrina C. Freedberg
Service Learning Today: The Perceptions Of Teachers And Service-Learning Professionals, Katrina C. Freedberg
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This study explores the experience of service learning in schools today. Guiding this inquiry was the question, “How do service-learning professionals approach, implement, and perceive service learning, and to what degree do these elements affect how they collaborate with others?” To this end, I sought to learn more about how intentions and outcomes become translated by community service organizations, teachers, and students into actual service learning experiences. Based on individual interviews, the findings indicate the need to reconcile service-learning experiences with the ideals that inform them. The process of applying service learning is most characterized by the variety of motives …