Service Learning: A Beginning

This booklet was designed to provide an overview of service learning: what it is, its benefits to students, teachers, schools and communities, and how you can realize these benefits by using service learning in your classroom. While this publication emphasizes service learning in the P-12 institutions, the information is relevant and useful to any educator seeking to better understand the fundamentals of service learning. Bear in mind there are countless ways to incorporate service learning into the academic curriculum of nearly any course from preschool to graduate school using the same basic principles provided in this handbook. [authors]