Publication: Service-Learning as Scholarship in Teacher Education

• Buchanan, Alice M.

This article describes how two teacher education
service-learning programs illustrate alternative
interpretations of scholarship. A tutoring–mentoring
program in a teaching oriented masters institution and a
motor skill development program in a land grant
doctoral–research institution are described relative to how
each illustrates forms of scholarship as interpreted by
Boyer (1990)We discuss how these forms of scholarship—the
scholarship of discovery, integration, teaching, and
application—relate to stated institutional mission and
evaluation practices. Service-learning experiences for
preservice teachers can have the multiple benefits of
promoting an ethic of service and social responsibility,
demonstrating excellence in teacher education, and
exemplifying scholarly endeavors