Community Based Learning

WoodworkThis synthesis uses the term community-based learning as a broad framework that includes service-learning, experiential learning, School-to-Work, youth apprenticeship, lifelong learning and other types. A problem with these individual approaches is that each focuses on only a portion of the learning outcomes that can potentially be achieved through community-based learning. For example, service-learning concentrates on learning emerging from service provided to meet important needs—such as cleaning up our rivers—in a particular community, while School-to-Work generally focuses only on preparing youth for employment.

We define community-based learning as the broad set of teaching/learning strategies that enable youth and adults to learn what they want to learn from any segment of the community. Our definition provides for learners of all ages to identify what they wish to learn and opens up an unlimited set of resources to support them. By community, we are including the schools, formal and informal institutions in one's neighborhood, and the entire world through such resources as the Internet.
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