Active learning is learning that engages students in service, research, and internships with community partners. These opportunities often operate on a continuum as students engage first in service with community partners, then move into research positions, and then (and sometimes in tandem) take on more responsibility as interns supporting workforce development while gaining valuable real-world experience.
Civic Engagement and Service-based Learning
Service-Learning (S-L) is a teaching and learning method that integrates critical reflection and meaningful service in the community with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.
Community engagement describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good.
Civic engagement is the active role of citizens and residents in building, sustaining, reforming, and improving the communities to which they belong. As active community members, they deliberate with peers to define public problems and collaborate and act with peers to ameliorate those problems. In doing so, they honor certain virtues, such as respect for others and a degree of loyalty that does not preclude critical thinking and dissent.
To learn more about Civic Engagement and Service Learning you can visit Kapi’olani Community College’s Service and Sustainability Learning Program here: https://kapiolaniserve.weebly.com/about-kssl.html
To donate to our Service Learning program please visit the UH Foundations page to support our work here:
