Service Learning

　
In The Service Of What?
By Kahne and Westheimer

Argument:
"These authors Kahne and Westheimer argue that teachers, policy makers and academicans who take seriously the idea that learning and service reinforce each other and should come together in America's schools (13). "

I believe that their argument means that teachers try to teach service learning separately.  Some teachers focus on the learning part of it and how certain people live in differently than others.  Other teachers just teach service and giving back to the community.  They don't use both in ways to teach about service learning so Kahne and Westheimer want them to be able to bring those both together to teach students in the United States.  They write about that students should participate in service learning and be able to express ideas about it in ways explaining why people are this way.  Also allows the students to have better communication skills.

I wish we had implemented community service guidelines for students in my school.  It would have been a great experience for many people to have.  I decided to do volunteering for my senior project and I worked in a soup kitchen and also at a senior center delivering food the seniors that didn't get out of their houses.  It was a great experience for me and I learned a lot about the people.  After that experience when I went to college I decided to do more volunteering and ended up going to Camden, New Jersey.  I know I explained about the trip in an earlier post but it was an amazing week to meet people in Camden and also students from other states.  This website I'm going to attach is the place that hosted us and many different schools can stay there.  http://www.romero-center.org/ministries/urban-challenge/what-to-expect/
Even though it was a Catholic establishment it is open to anyone of different faiths and allow people to reflect on what they saw in the City and in the community and be able communicate with others.