Preservice Interns Implement Service-Learning: Helping Young Children Reach Out to Their Community |
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| Authors: | Nancy K Freeman Kevin J Swick |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Instruction and Teacher Education—Early Childhood, University of South Carolina, 107 Wardlaw, Columbia, SC, 29208 |
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| Abstract: | Service Learning (S-L) is an integral component of the Early Childhood preservice curriculum at the University of South Carolina. In spite of the fact that our college students had experienced the benefits of S-L first hand during their professional education, they had not become adept at implementing this experiential pedagogy into their own preschool and primary classrooms. This article describes the strategies the authors used to motivate their college students to integrate S-L into the classrooms where they were completing their capstone internship. It recounts these teacher education students' successes in planning and implementing effective S-L projects and identifies the benefits that came to the preservice teachers, their young students, and the schools and communities where they taught. |
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| Keywords: | service learning early childhood education teacher education experiential learning community service |
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