Service Learning Reflection

Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen the community. According to the goal of the Institute of medicine (IOM), they recommended that all undergraduates should have participated in the service learning to learn and experience from the public service in the community. In my opinion, the service learning is a meaningful experience for Public Health major’s student to understand how does the community work and build a connection between himself or herself to the public health field. In the reading of Service-Learning, it depicted that service learning comprises several learning components which lets student to engaged in the service and provide community benefit that can be establish as a course
It would help me to enhance the understanding of the relevance of course content and change my attitude, which encourage me to support my community. It emphasize on my developing citizenship skills and achieving the social changes. One of the effects from service learning for me is that learning how to intervene on the multiple factors which affect health and quality of life. Therefore, service learning impact me personally by understanding the people in the community and the health status of each people. In addition, participating in a service learning would help me to understand who I am working with and also who would they be contact with. Understanding the stakeholders in service learning is important for student to understand the function of a team. The stakeholders include students, faculty, academic institutions, community-based organizations, community members, and municipalities. Therefore, learning through these different stakeholders would impact me with different viewpoint on the real world