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What is service learning?

What is service learning?

Service learning in Lutheran schools

Service is faith active in love. Service involves the selfless giving and loving of others, making a difference in their lives by responding to their needs, and acting without expecting recognition or reward. A Lutheran school challenges students to grow in their understanding that service is not only a personal response to God’s love but a broader response as part of one’s humanity for the sake of justice for all.

Therefore students in a Lutheran school learn about serving and learn through serving. This concept is known as service learning. [LEA Service learning in Lutheran schools]

  • Definitions for service learning

  • PPT from the National Lutheran Principal's Conference 2014

  • Jodie Hoff session at National Lutheran Principal's Conference 2014

  • NLPC ALWS and IM - Who are they...?

  • A balanced approach to experiential education Andrew Furco

  • Jodie Hoff and Dr Meg Noack Service learning - building a culture ACLE 2013 workshop handout

    • Br Damien Price:

  • Service learning, community engagement, better world for all Ideas that work

  • Cause - Effect Matrix Homelessness

  • More harm than good

  • The processes at work in Service Learning

    • What are the benefits of service learning?

    There are benefits to both students and the community. These include: making learning more useful, relevant and alive. Interpersonal skills and social awareness is improved and service learning promote active learning.

  • Benefits of service learning

    • Toward a pedagogy of giving Dr Thomas William Nielsen

    Service learning in Lutheran schools

  • Rationale vision and guiding principles

    • A vision for learners and learning in Lutheran schools

  • LQL diagram

  • LQL framework

    • Pastor Norman C Habel challenges Lutheran schools to consider their teaching and action around social justice issues [The Reuther Oration 2005]

  • Social Justice in a Lutheran School Context

    • A principal's perspective

    An interview with Ruth Butler, Principal Grace Lutheran College

    Hope and love (a world view)
    Justice (the head)
    Service (action)
    Humility (transforming hearts)
    The challenge (learning about God)