Service learning is the linking of service to learning, either within the classroom or at the service site itself.
By participating in a service project, students respond collaboratively to an authentic need expressed by the community. By adding the learning component through a more formal setting, students can deepen their understanding of the need they are responding to, explore the context of their service work and search for ways to extend or broaden their knowledge of the project and/or the community.
Over 2500 students
Together, over 2500 students, from Ermitage and other European schools, working alongside their Indian student peers and fellow teachers from Emerald Heights International School, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and Daly College, have participated in at least one eye camp.
The benefits of Service Learning
In the case of international service projects, students experience very different socio-economic, cultural and religious environments.
- Service learning makes learning real.
- Service learning tests your beliefs.
- Service learning helps understand the world around you in other ways and through the eyes of others.
- Service learning seeks to blend the act of helping others with the learning process students engage in everyday at school.
