A faculty learning community’s reflection on implementing servicelearning goals

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Diana Becket
Brenda Refaei
Claudia Skutar

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Implementing service-learning is challenging in light of issues such as changes in student demographics and pressure from existing curricula goals. However, closer community engagement is increasingly important in the long-term goals of our universities. Members of a faculty learning community at an open-access college reflect on the process of implementing the official university definition of service-learning in their English program. The implications of using servicelearning as a teaching tool are critically discussed.

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Becket, D., Refaei, B., & Skutar, C. (2012). A faculty learning community’s reflection on implementing servicelearning goals. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(1), 74–87. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/1977
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Diana Becket, University of Cincinnati

Department of English, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, 9555 Plainfield RD, Cincinnati, OH 45236.

Brenda Refaei, University of Cincinnati

Department of English, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, 9555 Plainfield RD, Cincinnati, OH 45236.

Claudia Skutar

Department of English, University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, 9555 Plainfield RD, Cincinnati, OH 45236.

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