These Center for Learning seminars take up the call for service-learning sounded by the National Commission on Service-Learning. Service-learning is a step beyond simple community service because it joins the action of community service with an academic, reflective component.
It can be used as the reflective component to an existing high school service-learning course or to upgrade a community service component that is already in place to a service-learning course. It does not serve as a manual for beginning a service-learning program from scratch. Instead, the teacher manual and student reflection handbook provide ways for students to explore ideas, assess their skills, set goals, discuss their experiences, and formulate their own perspective on community service in an informed, coherent, and mature way.