Community Service or Service Learning

Community service is defined as voluntary or involuntary work done by individuals to provide service to disadvantaged groups or public areas.While community service has numerous benefits, it only focuses on unidimensional service and caters to a current need setting nothing in place to implement substantial change in the future.In contrast, service learning focuses on reciprocity and sets a foundation to create changes in communities.Service learning is defined as an organized collaborative process that requires individuals to actively participate in service projects.Community service is often viewed as volunteerism rather than service learning.