Service Learning to Social Entrepreneurship: A Continuum of Action Learning

Service-Learning (SL) pedagogy is recognized as providing a dynamic and holistic education. Social Entrepreneurship is expressed as a learning outcome that will enhance community sustainability as well as innovative and ethical values. In this article the author bridges two fields of study by proposing a continuum in which the greatest level of SL exposure, in conjunction with the optimal structuring of the teaching contextual variables, result in social entrepreneur behaviors. The model explores the contextual variables which impact the student, including: the nature of the service experience, the expectations of the community client, and the academic parameters guiding the experience