ABOUT KSSL
"Ma ka hana ka 'ike"
It is in the doing that we learn
~ No'ʻeau Hawaiʻi
It is in the doing that we learn
~ No'ʻeau Hawaiʻi
Service-Learning at
Kapiʻolani Community College
The initiative to integrate Service-Learning into course curriculum at Kapi‘olani Community College began in 1995. Since then, S-L has become increasingly institutionalized and is recognized as a student engagement pedagogy which faculty are encouraged to adopt, especially as the College develops a new ecology of learning—connecting classrooms, centers and labs, campus, community, countries abroad, and cyberspace.
While Kapi‘olani Service-Learning is a local and national leader, the faculty, staff, and students that manage the program constantly seek innovative and promising ways to better serve the College and support efforts toward a sustainable campus and community.
While Kapi‘olani Service-Learning is a local and national leader, the faculty, staff, and students that manage the program constantly seek innovative and promising ways to better serve the College and support efforts toward a sustainable campus and community.
Service-Learning (S-L) is a teaching and learning method that integrates critical reflection and meaningful service in the community with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.
Community engagement describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.
Civic engagement is the active role of citizens and residents to build, sustain, reform, and improve the communities to which they belong. As active community members they deliberate with peers to define public problems and collaborate and act with peers to ameliorate those problems. In doing so, they honor certain virtues, such as respect for others and a degree of loyalty that does not preclude critical thinking and dissent.
Collaboration—actual work—is just as important as deliberation.
People who merely talk about public issues are ineffectual and often naïve or misinformed; we learn by acting together. .. to improve public goods like schools, colleges, housing, health, shared ecosystems, and markets, as well as traditions and norms.
Service-Learning encourages students and faculty to be active partners with community members in building stronger communities and provides students with opportunities to develop and demonstrate:
Service-Learning supports academic learning and community needs in the following areas:
Additionally:
Service-Learning requires reciprocal community partnerships based on:
In sum, faculty and community partners take collective responsibility for student learning.
Community engaged faculty scholarship is a collaborative approach to research or practice that reflects diversity and equity among partnerships that share a commitment to social justice and the common goal of promoting healthy, sustainable, resilient communities.
For more information on Kapiʻolani Community College Service-Learning & Student Learning Outcomes, please visit: The Office For Institutional Effectiveness
Community engagement describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.
Civic engagement is the active role of citizens and residents to build, sustain, reform, and improve the communities to which they belong. As active community members they deliberate with peers to define public problems and collaborate and act with peers to ameliorate those problems. In doing so, they honor certain virtues, such as respect for others and a degree of loyalty that does not preclude critical thinking and dissent.
Collaboration—actual work—is just as important as deliberation.
People who merely talk about public issues are ineffectual and often naïve or misinformed; we learn by acting together. .. to improve public goods like schools, colleges, housing, health, shared ecosystems, and markets, as well as traditions and norms.
Service-Learning encourages students and faculty to be active partners with community members in building stronger communities and provides students with opportunities to develop and demonstrate:
- Newly acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes
- Deeper understanding and application of course content and broader appreciation of the discipline
- Deeper understanding of their relationship and responsibility to local, national, regional, and global communities
Service-Learning supports academic learning and community needs in the following areas:
- Arts, History & Culture
- P-20 Education & Support for Families
- Elder Care
- Environmental Awareness & Sustainability
- Community Health & Public Safety
- Intercultural Perspectives & Education
- Resilient Neighborhoods
Additionally:
- Academic, professional and leadership development of students, and
- Professional development of faculty at the college.
Service-Learning requires reciprocal community partnerships based on:
- Clear lines of communication
- Clear roles and responsibilities
- Campus-Community needs assessment and assets mapping
- Strategic planning toward mutually beneficial goals, evaluation, and continuous improvement
- Active and collaborative learning for all
In sum, faculty and community partners take collective responsibility for student learning.
Community engaged faculty scholarship is a collaborative approach to research or practice that reflects diversity and equity among partnerships that share a commitment to social justice and the common goal of promoting healthy, sustainable, resilient communities.
For more information on Kapiʻolani Community College Service-Learning & Student Learning Outcomes, please visit: The Office For Institutional Effectiveness
The following represent sources of program support for Kapiʻolani Service-Learning: