In The Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning By Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

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In the Service of What? by Kahne and Westheimer

In Darlene's blog "In the Service of What? by Kahne and Westheimer" She talkes about the main arguments that they make which are "  here seem to be two main subjects to the argument, service learning for charity, or service learning to identify and respond (change)." I think she right as I read the article those were the two things that kept poping up.

" If we are doing it because we have to (charity) or that we are learning about how to live like other people and becoming more aware of social issues (change)." I think the two actually blend together.  you can do Charity work while being able to take a walk in another persons shoes and see what it like to live there life. and once you witness these issues  hopefully you will want to learn more about the issues at hand.

I think the idea of service learning is not a new idea in the into the author quotes two form presidents from two different decades. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. I think John F. Kennedy  famous quote from his inaugural address "... ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." I think this summons up service learning because in this quote he telling the people of the united States to be selfless and to help someone in need because it the right thing to do rather than be selfish and ask what a person can do for you.

In class I would like  to talk about what it means to participate in service learning and what are the benfits of it. But more importantly what the differences between now and say the 1960's when Kennedy was promoting this.

I found this video It about UCF students what it means to do service learning for the people doing it and the people befitting.