Cultivating Interdependent Partnerships for Community Change and Civic Education

This chapter explores an approach to service-learning that focuses on deepening a sense of interdependendence as the foundation for powerful partnerships. These partnerships still reflect other generally recognized good practices such as shared goals, trust, respect, clear communication, and joint decision making. By building as well on a sense of common fate, common responsibility, and the need for common spaces, these partnerships will more likely result in the societal, institutional, and personal transformation desired by community partners at the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) summit and by so many campus-based faculty and staff involved in service-learning. (authors)