About Service Learning

Service learning is not simply picking up trash or carrying lumber to help rebuild homes, although these could be part of a comprehensive service-learning experience. “Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.” http://www.servicelearning.org.

Your service learning experience in the greater New Orleans region will give you real-world learning experiences that could be working with social service agencies engaged in counseling and social work, with governments agencies engaged in re-building the regional economy, with students in K-12 classrooms, or with organizations charged with rebuilding the wetlands, restoring the coastline, or improving the levee system.

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