Monday, March 15, 2010

In The Service Of What?

After Reading the article written by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer i agreed 100%. I feel service learning is a project that can change the lifes of many. i feel the person particapating and the person recieveing both can gain alot from the experience. It is important that we all particpate because we can change the life of many less Fourunate people. Some Quotes i felt were important were....

1." Ask not what your counrty can do for you; ask what you can do for you country".

This is important because we should all do thing in life to help others and not expect anything in return we can help so many less fourntuate is we just do little things. The little things can make a huge difference.

2. "Educators and legislstors alike maintain that service learning can imporve the community....."

This is so true if we all particpate in at least one service learning project we can make a huge difference in out community. Every little bit helps and if we can change the life of one person thats a start to a big and better change.

3."Students would interact with those less fourtuante than themseleves and would experience the excitment and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom."

This is important i think that children need to do learning outside the classroom. It is important for them to get there hands on things and actually experience it for themselves. So much learning can be done outside the classroom. Its Teachers job to find things for the children to particapte in outside the classroom.

5 comments:

  1. Heather,
    I too 100% agree with what was said in this article. I believe that both participants of this "project" do gain from it.

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  2. I agree with you and the article as well. As I had said in my blog: Service learning is not just charity work, it is a way for people to observe, discover, learn, help, and achieve.

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  3. Heather,
    I agree that it is the teacher's job to get their students to actually experience it for themselves and to find ways for their students to participate outside of the classroom, by doing this they would get so much from it.

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  4. Your 2nd quote definitely is so true. Service learning can drastically improve the community if, like you said, people take part in some sort of way.

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  5. Hi,
    I liked your first quote its true that everyone should help others and not expect anything in return.

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