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The Office of Service Learning provides
a central location for information about service learning
opportunities at the University of Delaware. This includes
providing support and advisement to faculty interested in
enhancing and developing service learning courses, developing
new opportunities for students, and serving as a liaison with
community partners interested in exploring new service learning
connections with the University of Delaware. The Academic
Council on Service Learning adopted the following definition
in Spring 2004:
Service-learning is a pedagogy that
exposes students to the needs of the larger society, engages
them in addressing those needs through community service,
and connects what they learn in the classroom to real-world
conditions. At its best, service-learning is a powerful teaching
method that allows students to reflect upon why such conditions
exist and what their democratic responsibilities are in addressing
them.
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