====== M02-1: SL and Practice ======

=====How to bring “Service Learning” in practice?=====

==== A) Clarifying ====

**1. Brainstorm: collecting ideas (teachers and learners)**

  * Define the problem (definition phase)
  * Discuss the problem grounded by information (information phase)
  * Concreate the problem (new-definition phase)
  * Concreate ideas (idea phase)
  * Sort in categories (examination phase)

**2. Partner Search:** identifying and finding cooperation partners (agencies, grants, institutions, local partners etc.)

**3. Curriculum:** clarifying the connecting between current and former seminars, expected learning outcome and study aims

==== B) Setting the primary focus ====

What should be reached: what are the resources of the group, their prior experiences, their knowledge --> what can be reached?

(e.g. overcoming the theory-practice-gap, supporting to be a participating member of the society, democracy, scientific knowledge, social competences live-long-learning, planning skills, building relationships, getting research results, supporting critical thinking, problem-solving, offering job chances, see [[en:courses:archiv:materials:lc-m-05-2|M02-2: Service Learning in Educational Domains]].

  * “academic expectancies” //(learning growth)//
  * “service expectancies” //(social effect)//
  * “Personal growth expectancies” //(personal competence gain)
//

==== Course: ====

Give the three months course a structure and keep the Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice in mind ([[en:courses:archiv:materials:lc-m-05-3|M02-3]]).

  * Introductory workshop/seminar (clarifying frame, organisational aspects, scientific and social context: practical aspects / scientific aspects / social aspects)

  * Connection and trust building to the cooperation partners (getting to know new social fields and acting adequate)

  * Encouraging active role of the learners (acting, responsibility, problem solving, experiencing something new)

  * Encouraging teamwork of the learners (sensible in between the students working group and in between the service giver/taker-connection, avoiding disappointing and in transparent events)

  * Encouraging meta reflection (exploration of the reasons for the main problem and concrete raising problems; bringing the own role, points of views, problems to mind) 

  * Evaluating the pedagogical win, effects, problems of the project (drawing a balance)

Here an overview:

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