Beyond the Classroom: Implementing Academic Service-Learning

Abstract

Businesses struggle with complicated issues that were not discussed and/or did not exist 25 years ago, and “higher education has not adequately responded to the need to prepare students for this complex environment†(Dallimore, 2002:86). Experiential teaching methods, including academic service-learning, address some of these challenges in higher education. The purpose of this paper is to assist management educators and practitioners in understanding the academic service-learning pedagogy and its worth and applicability to management education.