May 16, 2017Toward a National Agenda for SLCE?by Lori E. Kniffin, Patti H. Clayton, & Sarah E. Stanlick In an earlier blog post, we introduced the Service-Learning and Community Engagement Future Directions Project (SLCE-FDP). We invited you to join this learning community and contribute your own thinking in…
May 9, 2017Community Members on SLCE PartnershipsCompiled by Patti H. Clayton We are co-educators. That is not our organization’s bottom line, but that’s what we do. [SLCE community partner] This blog post will be a bit different than the others in this series, less an essay and…
May 2, 2017Students as Co-Creators of SLCEby Patti H. Clayton & Alexa Stout We have to keep striving, not only towards fulfilling the hope that all students will become active citizens, but the intention that they will be active citizens, that they will be committed to changing their…
April 28, 2017Engaged Education: Not For Undergraduates Onlyby Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton A decade ago, research suggested that, when it came to graduate education, colleges and universities focused more on disciplinary knowledge than civic engagement, despite the emphasis on the latter at the undergraduate…
March 7, 2017SLCE Future Directions Project: Co-Creating the Future of the SLCE Movementby Patti H. Clayton, Sarah E. Stanlick, & Lori E. Kniffin What is your vision for the future of SLCE? Why? What must we particularly attend to in order to support the flourishing of the work in this direction? An…
February 28, 2017SLCE Scholarship: Broadening the Who, the Where, and the Whatby Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton Throughout these blog posts we use the term “practitioner-scholar” to refer to anyone who partners in SLCE with a spirit of inquiry; connects their practice, learning, and curiosity with others; and thereby…
February 22, 2017Civic Learningby Stephanie T. Stokamer & Patti H. Clayton Perhaps most fundamentally, the raison d’etre for service-learning and community engagement (SLCE)—the upshot of the range of answers to the “why SLCE” question explored in the second blog post—is civic learning. Consensus…
January 31, 2017Why Service-Learning and Community Engagement?by Lori E. Kniffin & Patti H. Clayton What is behind the not-uncommon question “Why service-learning and community engagement (SLCE)?” Are the questioners wondering “Why should the academy invest in this?” … “Why should I consider teaching in this unfamiliar…