Civic Learning: A Sine Qua Non of Service Learning

Civic learning is an essential element of service learning, but one that often underdeveloped in practice. This article surveys various conceptualizations civic are use higher education around the world, discusses approaches to designing courses generate outcomes, and proposes two methods for assessing student attainment them. The intent build instructors’ capacities cultivate knowledge, skills, dispositions, behaviors lie at very heart public life ever-more complex interconnected 21st century.