Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this essay, I focus on the service in service learning. I consider what might happen if the term "service learning" was inverted--to learning service. I wonder if such an inversion can help instructors, students, and community partners critically evaluate the service they do. I describe "reading service as text" as a tool for learning service. To read service as text, learners question the goals, values, forms, and assumptions embedded ln distinctive forms of service. The guiding questions fer this essay are: (1) What does it mean to learn service, (2) how can service be read as text, and (3) how can best practices be reconsidered as standards for service?
Author: Marilynne Boyle-Baise
Institution: Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413359270