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Pursuing Franklin's Dream: Philosophical and Historical Roots of Service‐Learning
Author(s) -
Harkavy Ira,
Hartley Matthew
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-010-9341-x
Subject(s) - dream , service learning , service (business) , sociology , health psychology , pedagogy , public relations , psychology , public health , political science , medicine , marketing , nursing , business , neuroscience
Two decades ago service‐learning as an innovation lingered on the periphery of the academy. Today, service‐learning has spread across American higher education. Few educational innovations have achieved such relatively rapid success. This article describes the historical and philosophical underpinnings of service‐learning. It notes some of the significant debates that have occurred among its practitioners. The authors draw from experience at their university, the University of Pennsylvania, to describe the importance of connecting service‐learning to the core educational and civic missions of a college or university, as well as to provide a case study of how that connection might be made.