DePaul University Irwin W. Steans Center
Irwin W. Steans Center was established as the Office for Community-based Service Learning at DePaul University in 1998. The center was established as part of the universitys commitment to serving those who are least served by society. Under the guidance of its founding director, Dr. Laurie Worrall, the Steans Center focuses on integrating service-learning pedagogy into the curriculum. Since its establishment, the Steans Center has experienced tremendous growth to an extent that it has become a vibrant community engagement center at DePaul University. Currently, the center supports over 4000 students annually as well as hundreds of community partners and faculty members (Steans Center History, 2022).
As stated on DePaul Universitys website, the mission of the Steans Center is to integrate service-learning pedagogy into the curriculum. In this regard, the center seeks to provide support for the direct integration of service throughout the universitys curriculum. By providing such support, the center seeks to ensure that serving others or community service permeates the minds and actions of all DePaul Universitys students, staff, and faculty. The Steans Center seeks to promote the integration of service-learning pedagogy into the curriculum by developing high-quality...
…from the classroom and the practical needs of community members.This service-learning for higher education course would enhance my understanding of service-based curriculum and learning. I believe that this course gives me an opportunity to identify how education can be used as a tool for serving communities through collaboration between students, faculty, and staff. I would love to learn how to link service and learning through reflective processes. This essentially means that my main focus in this course is to gain insights into how to combine classroom instruction with meaningful community service. I believe that this course would help prepare me for…
References
Heffernan, K. (n.d.). Service-learning in higher education. Retrieved June 27, 2022, from https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/60533568.pdf
“Steans Center History.” (2022). Irwin W. Steans Center. Retrieved from DePaul University website: https://resources.depaul.edu/steans-center-community-based-service-learning/about/Pages/history.aspx
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