"In Service of What"
Kahne and Westheimer
Kahne and Westheimer
Kahne and Westheimer argue that service learning is important because students should be able to give back to the community and learn how to provide help help in their own community and do something good for once.
1) "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."
This quote is suggesting that students should be able to go out in the public and show what they have been learning in school and learn more by helping other people in the community. By helping other people in the community the students are reaching out to people who can use the help everyday. Giving back to the community is a great thing to do.
2) "For example, a music director at a middle school we studies wanted her surburban, upper-middle class students to perform at a nearby elementary school in a poor neighborhood. Some of the middle school parents objects, saying they they were concerned for their children's safety. In a written evaluation, the students said that they had imagined 'horrifying children running around on a dirty campus.' "
This is redicolous because at an elementary school I do not think there is going to be any problems of middle school kids getting harassed from younger school kids who are not even smart enought to realize what they are doing. There is absolutey no reason for middle school parents to object having their kids go to an elementary school to perform at an elementary school to show the kids the art of music.
3) "We attempt to 'apprehend the reality of the other' and then to 'struggle [for progress] together.' In so doing we create opportunities for changing our understanding of the other and the context within which he or she lives."
Students should be able to tell what the problems are in their community so they know what to do to change that around to make the problems go away. Finding out in advance what is going on could help out the community a lot because people could be working from the begining and then all of a sudden other people could come in and help the community out in a different way.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, I believe this article could help out students in high school as well as in middle school because students need to be able to do something for their community because there a lot of probelms in communities today and people arent doing anything about it. Helping out the community could do a lot for someone who doesn't do much, students in high school and middle school can help themselves out by helping the community out by going to different places and seeing if they could help in anyway possible. High school students can learn a lot from this because if some of them want to become teachers they can go to other schools in their school district and help out teachers there for a period of time and learn from it as well as making a difference in someone elses day. This article states that students should learn about service learning projects because they could help out students become better people in lives.
1) "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."
This quote is suggesting that students should be able to go out in the public and show what they have been learning in school and learn more by helping other people in the community. By helping other people in the community the students are reaching out to people who can use the help everyday. Giving back to the community is a great thing to do.
2) "For example, a music director at a middle school we studies wanted her surburban, upper-middle class students to perform at a nearby elementary school in a poor neighborhood. Some of the middle school parents objects, saying they they were concerned for their children's safety. In a written evaluation, the students said that they had imagined 'horrifying children running around on a dirty campus.' "
This is redicolous because at an elementary school I do not think there is going to be any problems of middle school kids getting harassed from younger school kids who are not even smart enought to realize what they are doing. There is absolutey no reason for middle school parents to object having their kids go to an elementary school to perform at an elementary school to show the kids the art of music.
3) "We attempt to 'apprehend the reality of the other' and then to 'struggle [for progress] together.' In so doing we create opportunities for changing our understanding of the other and the context within which he or she lives."
Students should be able to tell what the problems are in their community so they know what to do to change that around to make the problems go away. Finding out in advance what is going on could help out the community a lot because people could be working from the begining and then all of a sudden other people could come in and help the community out in a different way.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, I believe this article could help out students in high school as well as in middle school because students need to be able to do something for their community because there a lot of probelms in communities today and people arent doing anything about it. Helping out the community could do a lot for someone who doesn't do much, students in high school and middle school can help themselves out by helping the community out by going to different places and seeing if they could help in anyway possible. High school students can learn a lot from this because if some of them want to become teachers they can go to other schools in their school district and help out teachers there for a period of time and learn from it as well as making a difference in someone elses day. This article states that students should learn about service learning projects because they could help out students become better people in lives.
1 comment:
Great point about students actually learning from their service "Learning" projects!
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