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Continuing Education

Service-Learning: Historical Roots, Present Forms, and Educational Potential for Training Health Educators

Pages 256-263 | Published online: 25 Feb 2013
 

Abstract

Service-learning is a relatively new pedagogical technique with tremendous potential to improve both instruction in health education and health in a community. Several often-used definitions and descriptions of service-learning, however, greatly underrepresent the usefulness of this method for health educators. This article is intended as an introduction to service-learning for those who teach health or the methods of health promotion. It shows that there are two major types of service-learning and that one is especially appropriate for training health educators. It also gives examples of how the method may be used for a wide variety of academic objectives often pursued in training health educators.

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