iCED Faculty Academic Service-Learning: Purposeful Civic Learning

Civic learning intentionally prepares students for informed, engaged participation in their communities’ civic and democratic life and provides opportunities to develop civic knowledge, skills, and mindsets through learning and practice.

The Eight Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Elements

iCED has identified the following civic learning and democratic engagement elements as priorities. All AS-L experiences should link to one or more of these elements. We encourage you to use these and/or the UNSDGs as themes or civic learning objectives to guide your critical reflection prompts.

1. Learning from others, self, and environment to develop informed perspectives on social issues
2. Recognizing and appreciating human diversity and commonality
3. Behaving, and working through controversy, with civility
4. Taking an active role in the political process
5. Participating actively in public life, public problem solving, and service
6. Assuming leadership and membership roles in organizations
7. Developing empathy, ethics, values, and sense of social responsibility
8. Promoting social justice locally and globally