Civic Engagement and Service Learning
Welcome. This site is intended to introduce faculty, teachers, students, researchers, clinicians, and community partners to the connections between psychological work, the pedagogy of service learning, and issues of civic engagement. The information you find on this website represents the work of many people, a grassroots effort to bring service learning and civic engagement to the discipline and the larger community. Explore all the links on this page to discover how to get started in service learning and how to broaden and strengthen you existing work.
Service Learning
To help those new to service learning get started, this section begins with the basics of definitions and principles of best practice.
Civic Engagement
This section demonstrates ways psychologists support civic engagement which can take many forms, from individual voluntarism to organizational involvement.
Research
Information for the research-minded colleague who may be interested in a quick overview of where we are in the field today concerning the effectiveness of service learning approaches.
Partnerships
A description of the work of the P3 (Psychology Partnerships Project) Service-Learning Group, including case examples of service learning and civic engagement involving partnering in the local community.
Resources
A sampling of materials from the APA website relevant to working with civic engagement and service learning.
How Do You Create Socially Responsive Knowledge?
Paul D. Nelson, PhD, Director Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education and Training and other scholars describe ways of rethinking scholarship and engagement, and how we might prepare the next generation of psychologists to become engaged scholars.
