Talk:Service-learning

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Contents 1 Split page 2 Bias 3 Merge 4 Article improvement 5 Page organization

[edit] Split page

I think that the engineering section should be moved to its own article, perhaps with a short mention of service-learning in engineering programs left here. Service-learning is much more widespread than this article suggests and it implies a disproportionate prevalence in engineering programs.Leep4life (talk) 20:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bias

This page looks a little biased. 72.69.127.19 01:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

After looking over this page, the only real bias I saw was the first line 'Service-learning is a successful method of teaching' which I removed. Since I did not see any other bias, I removed the POV flag. Sorry if I missed anything. dimo414 21:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This definitely warrants a merge, with a redirect from here to the service-learning page.

There's much debate about whether service-learning is written with a hyphen or without, but i think making this page the redirect is acceptable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fishfly (talk • contribs) 19:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Some quick Google searching seems to back that up, so I'll perform the move. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 19:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

The usual rule in English is that you hyphenate such terms as adjectives but not as nouns. In "Service learning is cool," "service" acts as an adjective modifying learning, so they occupy different jobs in the sentences and shouldn't (by the usual rule) be hyphenated. However in the sentence "Service-learning courses are cool" "service-learning" works as a single term to modify "courses". "Service" isn't able to directly modify "learning" in that sentence because "learning" is acting as an adjective and only adverbs can modify adjectives. That is to say, a Google search isn't helpful because it doesn't distinguish between different uses of the term. NickelShoe (Talk) 02:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article improvement

If any user has suggestions for improving this page, I would be happy to be of service in any way. --Kenneth M Burke 01:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page organization

I appreciate the good writing that has gone into this page but the organization leaves me a little confused. For instance, tucked away within under the major subheading of "Effect on Engineering Education" is the little section on Pedagogical Implications and Constructivism. This paragraph appears to deal with issues relevant to Service Learning as a whole, but it lies solely within the Engineering section. It might be better placed after this section (or related more directly to engineering.)

In general, it seems to me that the page as a whole is quite dominated by the engineering field. I was hoping to learn a good deal more about its usefulness in other areas and at different levels-- especially K-12--where its use is quite controversial. A wide-ranging discussion of both sides of the issue, with more examples, would be very helpful. Rosecrans 13:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)