Service learning (SL) is an educational idea and educational practice method that rose in the United States in the middle and late 1980s. It organically combines academic research with community service and has developed rapidly in the past decade. However, it is not easy to train service-learning teachers, which may set off a new climax of teacher education reform.
Service learning is a comprehensive learning activity integrating service, learning and reflection, aiming at enhancing students' sense of social responsibility, self-development and learning effectiveness through practical service. The concept of service learning Service learning is a learning method that organically combines service activities with learning activities, and it is a learning method with service as the main body and learning as the purpose. The core of service learning is to acquire new knowledge and ability through practical service learning. ?
Characteristics of service learning Service learning has the following characteristics:
1. Service orientation: The core of service learning is to learn to acquire new knowledge and ability through practical service. ?
2. Taking learning as the purpose: Service learning aims to enhance students' sense of social responsibility, self-development and learning effectiveness through practical service. ?
3. Take reflection as a means: service learning deepens the understanding and knowledge of service experience through reflection, and adjusts service activities and learning plans according to the results of reflection. ?
4. Comprehensiveness: Service learning organically combines service activities with learning activities, so that students can acquire all-round development of knowledge, ability and quality in the process of practicing service.