“Service learning [is] any carefully monitored service experience in which a student has intentional learning goals and reflects actively on what he or she is learning throughout the experience. Service learning programs emphasize the accomplishment of tasks that address community issues and include features which foster participant’s learning about larger social issues and an understanding of the reciprocal learning and service which can occur between students and community members.” (http://www.nsee.org/).
Service-learning is a method of teaching which connects learning to the community in order to provide services to others. The primary emphasis is on enriching the learning that happens as students apply their knowledge to a community context. (Aberdeen Service Learning Project, Northern State University).