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IBCP Core
IBCP Core
What is Service Learning?
What is Service Learning?
Service learning is the development and application of knowledge and skills towards meeting an identified and authentic community need. In this research-based approach, you will often undertake service initiatives related to topics you studied previously in your academic disciplines, utilising skills, understandings and values developed in these studies.
Service learning builds upon your prior knowledge and background, enabling you to make links between your academic disciplines and your service experiences. Service learning provides opportunities for you to apply your interests, skills and talents along with academic knowledge towards the common good while being observant of your personal development and the impact of your actions. The purpose is for you to contribute to society by improving the lives of people or assisting the environment or animals.
Your engagement in the process of service learning will further your enthusiasm is your chosen subjects as you find meaning by bridging classroom content with purposeful action.
The Aim of Service Learning
The Aim of Service Learning
The aims of service learning are for you to:
Develop and apply knowledge and skills towards meeting an authentic community need
Develop as leader who takes initiative, solve problems and work collaboratively with others
Enjoy the experiences of both learning and service
Develop a sense of caring about, and a responsibility for, others
Gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your community and society through meaningful reflection
Enhance and strengthen your experience with the existing school curriculum.
Time Requirement
Time Requirement
A minimum of 50 hours is expected to be devoted to service learning and you must give service learning as much importance as any other element of the CP.
Assessment - Five Learning Outcomes
Assessment - Five Learning Outcomes
Completion of service learning is based on your achievement of the five service learning outcomes. You are required to maintain and complete a service learning portfolio as evidence of your engagement with service learning throughout the programme and of application of the five stages of service learning.
Evidence and reflections in your SL portfolio are one way you can demonstrate that you have met the learning outcomes. You can also show that you have achieved them in the interviews with your SL Advisor (Tutors).
Your CAS/SL coordinator decides if you have met the conditions of CAS.
The Importance of IBCP Synergy
The Importance of IBCP Synergy
It is essential that you show synergy between your career-related subject of study, your ethical dilemma within the reflective project and your service learning. The best students will link the 3 areas of study.
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