Service Learning in Public Health: A Critical Assessment of Potential Benefits and Unintended Consequences

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
A. Ratnayake, Alyssa M. Lederer
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Service learning is a pedagogical strategy in which students complete a project at a community-based organization where they can apply classroom skills in a real-world context. Service learning can benefit student learning outcomes and continues to expand in public health education; yet there is the potential for ethical concerns. In particular, service learning may reinforce inequities between academic institutions and community organizations by positioning academic institutions as holding significant power and resources and inadvertently promoting this dynamic to students. This perspective provides an overview of service learning in public health and related fields, discusses the benefits of service learning as well as the gaps in standardization and evaluation, and highlights situations in which inequities may emerge. Recommendations are provided, with the goal of helping future health promotion professionals better meet the objective of fostering social justice through public health.
公共卫生中的服务学习:对潜在利益和意外后果的关键评估
服务学习是一种教学策略,学生在社区组织完成一个项目,在那里他们可以在现实世界中应用课堂技能。服务性学习有利于学生的学习成果,并继续扩大公共卫生教育;然而,也存在伦理问题。特别是,服务学习可能会将学术机构定位为拥有重要权力和资源,并无意中向学生宣传这种动态,从而加剧学术机构和社区组织之间的不平等。这一观点概述了公共卫生和相关领域的服务学习,讨论了服务学习的好处以及标准化和评估方面的差距,并强调了可能出现不平等的情况。提供了建议,目的是帮助未来的健康促进专业人员更好地实现通过公共卫生促进社会正义的目标。
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