Does Service-Learning Have a Future?

Authors

Edward Zlotkowski, Bentley College

Document Type

Occasional Paper

Publication Date

Winter 1995

Abstract

Until very recently the service-learning movement has had an "ideological" bias; i.e., it has tended to prioritize moral and/or civic questions related to the service experience. Such a focus reflects well the movement's past but will not guarantee its future. What is needed now is a broad-based adjustment that invests far more intellectual energy in specifically academic concerns. Only by paying careful attention to the needs of individual disciplines and by allying itself with other academic interest groups, will the service-learning movement succeed in becoming an established feature of American higher education.

Comments

Working Paper #18

Originally published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Fall 1995.

Recommended Citation

Zlotkowski, Edward, "Does Service-Learning Have a Future?" (1995). New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications. 16.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nerche_pubs/16