In the Service of What???

     In "In the Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning" written by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer, They talk about a lot of the policies and proponents to Service Learning. "Service learning makes students active participants in service projects that aim to respond to the needs of the community while furthering the academic goals of students." First of all i really like that Quote by JFK," . . . ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."  That doesnt even need to apply to our country it can apply to your family, your town, your school, your friends, everything and that all applyes to service learning. I fell as though that a lot of students need more than just academic education they need Life education "Street Smarts", so they take what they learn in class and implement it in the field. It is all good and well to be able to find the derivative 3x + 2y, but when are you going to use this in real life. This is why Service Learning is a great way to further your education that you are able to use for the rest of your life not just in that moment of time. It will help children be able to process further goals and realize more in depth what they want to do with there life. By doing this service learning the students will be more exposed to a higher-order thinking as well.

      Personally I enjoy having to do community service because at the end of your service you are more experienced at what you have done, you feel better about yourself, and you know have a better understanding about that one subject and what you can do or what you want to do to better yourself or that subject. I always had a tough time in the class room with work that you had to think about, I much rather do visual hands on activities that makes you have to think more higher in depth without knowing that you are thinking.Weather this service learning is charity, volunteer work, government work, ect, I really fell as though people will have a better understanding in life by the more they volunteer their time into the service about that one subject and where they want to be in life. So taking what the students have learned in school and going out into the community and using it doing volunteer work or what ever they will learn from what they have experienced and the action they took during their work.

This is a great video that applies service learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t30ZMX8uGw