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This chapter addresses issues related to developing effective service learning campus-community partnerships. It proposes specific indicators of effective partnerships and explores these issues through the lens of relevant scholarship and an existing service learning partnership. Particular attention is paid to the community’s perspective on effective campus-community partnerships and the significance of the community identifying the needs and issues to be addressed by partnerships. The chapter also addresses the importance of reciprocity and the relationship that underlies successful service learning partnerships. Profiles of the members of the partnership referenced in the chapter, as well as the service learning model of civic engagement, are provided. Student narratives, anecdotes and quotes are employed. Potential obstacles to forming and sustaining effective partnerships, strategies for overcoming such obstacles and possible next steps in developing campus based, as well as campus-community based, initiatives within American higher education overall are discussed.
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Fiume, P. (2016). Developing Effective Service Learning Campus-Community Partnerships. In: Schnee, E., Better, A., Clark Cummings, M. (eds) Civic Engagement Pedagogy in the Community College: Theory and Practice. Education, Equity, Economy, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22945-4_15
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