Civil Society, Social Trust, and the Implementation of Service-Learning

This chapter seeks to extend the conversation linking service-learning and civic society/social capital in a new direction. It takes as its starting point that schools themselves must be civil societies and that their social capital will influence their ability to fulfill important goals. It reverses the discussion whether service-learning fosters civil society to explore whether a level of civil society in schools (in the form of social trust) must exist to implement service-learning.