Kahne and Westheimer

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The piece by Kahne and Westheimer titled, In The Service Of What?The Politics of Service Learning they look at the many different forms of service learning but discuss the different things that service learning should teach and develop in the human that is participating in it, and that is where the term "service learning" comes about, which is what we are doing in this class.

On this page, one can see the statistics of volunteer work in Rhode Island. These numbers of people and hours of volunteer work are great and show how people give their time to help communities. However, thinking about the article, I'm curious as to how many people really learned or developed from partaking in any of this community service.

Doing research on service learning I found this  website, which gives a lot of different activities and seminars to learn about service learning and different things you can learn through it and why those things are important. This website set up by the Corporation for National and Community Service, is a great resource and if you wanna learn more about them you can go to this link.

One thing I find interesting it there is a President's High Honors to the colleges that have the most community service numbers. Here is a listing of them. link

Reading this piece was interesting and it put into perspective why we do the service learning project and have journals to reflect on the different things that we have learned. It also makes me see why reflecting on the experience is crucial to learning instead of just doing the service and getting the paper signed.