What is Service Learning and Community-Based Learning?
“Service Learning” can be defined as an educational paradigm that merges academic learning with the needs of the broader community, with the aim of subliminally enshrining in its audience, the rights and responsibilities of national and global citizenship. Service learning includes a combination of the following four characteristics, namely: • Academic learning of disciplinary course content • Relevant service that enhances academic learning • Critical reflection through personal, experience-based and analytical writing and discussion • Deliberate civic education In addition to facilitating cognitive learning and the development of civic awareness for students and faculty alike, service learning helps students develop an understanding of the world as an interdependent system and increases global awareness and concern. What does it mean for SFS-Qatar? Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service is built on an ethos of merging academic curriculum with practical experiences, with th
