The Possibilities of Service-Learning

Abstract

The previous chapter articulated the pedagogical, political, and institutional limits of service-learning in higher education. In this chapter I want to take a final step in the analysis by suggesting that in fact all modes of service-learning are limited, or more precisely, all modes of service-learning are self-undermining. Thus all modes of service-learning not only have external limits; they have internal limits as well. And this, I want to argue, is the most powerful and transformative possibility of service-learning in higher education.