Community service and service learning in Canada : Service communautaire et apprentissage par le service communautaire au Canada : profil des programmes à travers le pays

In the interviews that our team completed with school board and school officials, we sought the following 4. Was the community service programming typical information: or atypical of other school boards or schools in the area? [...] In addition, 11 private schools across the In this part of the report, we present a brief synopsis country are members of Round Square of the patterns of community service and service ( ), learning programming that we have identified for a global association of schools committed each of the provinces and territories. [...] Although specific The following are generalizations about these details vary across schools, a commitment of practices.1 about 20 hours of service per year is typical and there is usually an additional assignment • Ministry of Education guidelines for the program that requires critical reflection about the specify the nature of the community service experience from the student. [...] Community Service and Service Learning in Canada: A Profile of Programming Across the Country 7 British Columbia Manitoba The situation in British Columbia with regard to On its Web site, the Manitoba Ministry of Education community service and service learning is difficult places considerable emphasis on its responsibility to describe at this time. [...] Pending they are career-oriented and in the for-profit sector, this review, students entering high school as of there is also provision for Community Service Student 2004 must compile a Graduation Portfolio, which Initiated Projects (CSSIP), which can be earned has a weight of four credits (out of the 80 in the new through work in the not-for-profit sector.