HOW SERVICE LEARNING IS CONDUCTED IN A SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Nikola Levkov; Stuart Umpleby

Nikola Levkov Department of Management, Faculty of Economics University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje, Macedonia
Stuart Umpleby Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052

Keywords: Service learning, models of service learning, student projects, clients, benefits of service learning, lessons learned

Abstract

The article describes the process of conducting service learning projects at The George Washington University on a graduate level. The main goal of the article is to explore service learning as a learning methodology and to stress some of the benefits and costs of this approach of teaching. Also this article presents some important les- sons learned from conducting service learning at George Washington University and some figures about num- ber of the projects done in past and type of the projects and clients. The emphasis is on projects conducted with private voluntary organizations in the DC area.

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