Summary Of Building Partnerships For Service Learning

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I think this reading, “Building Partnerships for Service Learning”, effectively sets up a framework to use as a tool in order to reflect on one’s own service work. While it does not tell you how to build partnerships, it instead gives benchmarks to describe what those relationships should look like. What most resonated with me is the important idea that service learning is not providing services on behalf of the community, but partnering with communities “to meet collective needs”. These relationships need to be collaborations, where they are equally beneficial for both the institution and the community around it. Universities should not go into communities with a savior complex, instead service should provide a learning opportunity for the