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extensive and complex societal and political issues. Designing

classroom norms and learning strategies that not only enhance

academic learning, but also encourage civic learning are essential to

promote civic responsibility. Through a service-learning course the

readings, discussion, research, lectures, and community experiences

should help students understand how the purchase of morning coffee

makes us all an interdependent part of the global community. Learning

about the different local organizations that serve an array of needs is

not enough. We need to think about ways to enact positive change for

the greater good. “In other words, being an engaged citizen involves

more than ‘thinking globally and acting locally;’ it means deliberately

applying our academic knowledge and skills to positively transform

ourselves, others, and organizations” (Cress, Collier, Reitenauer, and

Associates, 2013, p. 15). Service-learning prepares students to use their

academic talents to benefit the community and encourages them to

develop tolerance, acceptance to diversity, and be proactive to improve

the world.

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