Examining the Future of Service-Learning: Three Recent Publications that Challenge the Current Paradigms

Abstract

The author of this article reviewed three publications that framed provocative questions about the future of service-learning. Authors of the three publications openly considered changes necessary to advance service-learning and in doing so they raised issues such as inclusion of new voices in the conversation on service-learning in higher education; degree to which service-learning should be embedded in academic majors, minors, and interdisciplinary programs; and social and political forces shaping the future of service-learning.