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• Service Learning or Community Engagement


  A teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities
• Service Learning or Community Engagement


  • A form of experiential education where learning occurs through a cycle of action and reflection as students, seek to achieve real objectives for the community and deeper understanding and skills for themselves
  • Students link personal and social development with academic and cognitive development, experience enhances understanding; understanding leads to more effective action
• Service Learning or Community Engagement is one of the most significant teaching methodologies
• Service Learning or Community Engagement is designed via collaboration between faculty and community partners
• Community


  A group of people who share something in common
• Types of Community


  • Formal Communities
  • Informal Communities
  • Urban Communities
  • Rural Communities
  • Global Communities
  • Sectoral Communities
  • Social Space Communities
• Characteristics of a Community

  • Members have a sense of identity and belonging
  • Consists of common symbol systems, such as similar language, religion and practices
  • Members share norms and values
  • Sense of mutual influence, whereby they influence and are influenced by each other
  • Shared needs and committed to meeting those needs
  • Emotional connection, such as common history, mutual support, and similar experiences
• Community Service


  Any kind of work done either by a person or a group of people with the objective to benefit others, typically done on a volunteer basis with no monetary outcome
• Skills you are likely to gain through social work

  • Leadership
  • Problem-solving
  • Collaboration with others
  • Time Management
  • Communication
• Challenges of Community Engagement

  • Attitudes and Expectations
  • Characteristics of Urban Communities
  • Commitment to the future