Politics of Service Learning in relation to my Service Learning Project

       "Service learning makes students active participants in service projects that aim to respond to the needs of the community wile furthering the academic goals of the students" I agree with this personally through my own experiences working at my service learning project it has helped me connect to the high school students I have worked with and also give me ideas for ways to operate my own high school classroom one day."They stress the importance of compassion for those in need and they encourage children an young adults to find ways to help."This statement also to me was important because I went to a high school where people of color were probably less than 10% of the school. It wasn't until I started to volunteer at the Met School that I realized such a huge difference in ways of teaching and ways of life. The students at The Met School also work on their own service learning project or internship. This week I helped a student who was planning on building small shelters for the homeless people in the community. This project really made me think about the issue of homelessness and how it has an impact on so many lives. Being on my service learning project has helped me grow as a person and look at the world in a completely different life and has brought to my attention certain problems being worse than I ever could have imagined. This is what Kahne and Westheimer discuss the goal of a service learning project is.

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