022205 Service to the Community

Service to the community effects a number of outcomes, not just for the community. For the person undertaking the service, such a commitment offers significant potential for hands-on learning of knowledge and skills, as well as the acquisition of new and empathetic perspectives towards those being helped. This subject allows students to explore avenues for community volunteer work and the range of outcomes for the 'target' sector of the community or environment. A range of competing and contested theories, attitudes and philosophies are investigated. In particular, the subject explores ways in which community service contributes to the knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes of the person undertaking the service. The subject also investigates ways in which such experiences can contribute to the student's eventual teaching.