SERVICE-LEARNING & SUSTAINABILITY
What is Service-Learning?
The National Center for Service-Learning defines service-learning through three key characteristics:
Service‐Learning promotes lifelong learning. Service‐Learning is not just for K‐12 and college students. Service‐Learning can take place in a number of educational settings, both formal and informal; with students of all ages, from preschools to nursing homes.
As pedagogy, Service‐Learning encourages learning and retention through active, experiential learning; reflection activities; and real‐world applications. Research also recognizes Service‐Learning as an effective strategy for fostering a sense of caring for others.
Students who are involved in Service‐Learning projects have opportunities to apply academic concepts to real‐ world settings and enhance their learning. Community partners gain access to new ideas and strategies through Service‐Learning faculty, staff, and students.
Please visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse website for other definitions and characteristics of service-learning: http://www.servicelearning.org/
For additional information on What Is Service Learning and Why Should We Use It?
Source: University of the People
- Service-learning constitutes activity that is focused on meeting a human need in the community where that need has to do with the well-being of individuals and/or of the environment in which they live.
- Key academic and/or civic objectives to be achieved through combining service with learning have been identified prior to the activity.
- Opportunities for students to reflect on their experience and its connection to specific academic/civic objectives are incorporated into the activity.
Service‐Learning promotes lifelong learning. Service‐Learning is not just for K‐12 and college students. Service‐Learning can take place in a number of educational settings, both formal and informal; with students of all ages, from preschools to nursing homes.
As pedagogy, Service‐Learning encourages learning and retention through active, experiential learning; reflection activities; and real‐world applications. Research also recognizes Service‐Learning as an effective strategy for fostering a sense of caring for others.
- Service‐Learning extends access to resources.
- Service‐Learning helps to improve access to university resources for both students and community partners.
Students who are involved in Service‐Learning projects have opportunities to apply academic concepts to real‐ world settings and enhance their learning. Community partners gain access to new ideas and strategies through Service‐Learning faculty, staff, and students.
Please visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse website for other definitions and characteristics of service-learning: http://www.servicelearning.org/
For additional information on What Is Service Learning and Why Should We Use It?
Source: University of the People
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Help support Kapiʻolani Service-Learning!
Help support Kapiʻolani Service-Learning (kccserve), which is a teaching and learning method that integrates critical reflection and meaningful service in the community with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.
Since 1995, more than 14,000 Kapiʻolani students have completed service-learning assignments with more than 100 community agencies and public schools. Qualifying student leaders recruit and mentor more than 600 students per year and develop student's critical thinking and reflection skills. Kapiʻolani
leads regionally and nationally in promoting civic responsibility and engagement.
Since 1995, more than 14,000 Kapiʻolani students have completed service-learning assignments with more than 100 community agencies and public schools. Qualifying student leaders recruit and mentor more than 600 students per year and develop student's critical thinking and reflection skills. Kapiʻolani
leads regionally and nationally in promoting civic responsibility and engagement.
What Is Sustainability and Why Is It Important???
Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people. Increasingly, companies are making public commitments to sustainability through actions like reducing waste, investing in renewable energy, and supporting organizations that work toward a more sustainable future.
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Sustainability is a broad discipline, giving students and graduates insights into most aspects of the human world from business to technology to environment and the social sciences. The core skills with which a graduates leaves college or university are highly sought after, especially in a modern world looking to drastically reduce carbon emissions and discover and develop the technologies of the future. Sustainability draws on politics, economics and, philosophy and other social sciences as well as the hard sciences. Sustainability skills and environmental awareness is a priority in many corporate jobs at graduate level and over as businesses seek to adhere to new legislation.
Therefore, Sustainability graduates will go into many fields but most commonly civic planning, environmental consultancy (built and natural environment), agriculture, not for profit, corporate strategies, health assessment and planning, and even into law and decision making. Entry-level jobs are growing and over the coming years, bachelors graduates can expect more and more options and opportunities.
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Therefore, Sustainability graduates will go into many fields but most commonly civic planning, environmental consultancy (built and natural environment), agriculture, not for profit, corporate strategies, health assessment and planning, and even into law and decision making. Entry-level jobs are growing and over the coming years, bachelors graduates can expect more and more options and opportunities.
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THE 17 GOALS:
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development
Learn MORE about the Sustainable Development Goals!
Getting Started with the SDGs in Universities
A guide for universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector
(Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Edition)
Watch the global broadcast ‘Nations United”
On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our economies and societies – this 30-minute film tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be. Directed by renowned film maker Richard Curtis and produced by the documentary film company 72 Films, “Nations United” presents the facts, data, and opportunities we have as a human family to reimagine and reshape the future. The film will be broadcast on numerous television channels, radio stations and streaming services around the world.
Getting Started with the SDGs in Universities
A guide for universities, higher education institutions, and the academic sector
(Australia, New Zealand & Pacific Edition)
Watch the global broadcast ‘Nations United”
On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our economies and societies – this 30-minute film tells the story of the world as it is, as it was, and as it could be. Directed by renowned film maker Richard Curtis and produced by the documentary film company 72 Films, “Nations United” presents the facts, data, and opportunities we have as a human family to reimagine and reshape the future. The film will be broadcast on numerous television channels, radio stations and streaming services around the world.