Service-Learning Essentials: Questions, Answers, and Lessons Learned

Foreword

I met Barbara Jacoby for the first time while attending a National Society for Experiential Education conference in Snowbird, Utah, in the early 1990s. We were co-sojourners when a handful of conference attendees joined Irene Fisher to visit the University of Utah's Lowell Bennion Center for Community Service, where Irene was the director. Unexpectedly, the weather turned bad about the time we began our journey. The drive up the mountain was dicey. I recall the anxiety in the van driver's voice while trying to reassure us that all was well. We made it up the mountain slowly, surely, at a steady pace, until we arrived safely at our destination.

This drive with Barbara and the other service-learning educators reflects my view of the progress ...