CSL Certification Component: Directed Readings

One component of Certification in Service Learning is to complete several directed readings and respond to questions based on the readings. The purpose of the readings is not only to give you a fuller understanding of service learning as an approach to learning, community engagement, and leadership but also to contextualize your independent and classroom experiences in the literature and encourage your engaged critical thinking about service learning. 

Read the directed readings below, complete the reading-related questions, and send them to the Center for Service Learning or bring them to your first reflection session.

Directed Readings: (pdf files)

• What is Service Learning?
  from "Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning across the Disciplines" by Christine M. Cress, Peter J. Collier, Vicki L. Reitenauer
  

• Making Our Lives Count
  from "Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time" by Paul Rogat Loeb

• Reveries of the Solitary Walker
  A selection, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Earliest Impressions
  by Jane Addams

• A Gift of Love
  by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reading Reflection Questions:
After completing the readings, finish the following worksheet and send it to CSL or bring it to your first reflection session: (Word doc)

• Reading Reflections Worksheet