Pulling it Together: A Method for Developing Service-Learning and Community Partnerships Based in Critical Pedagogy is a guide to creating service-learning programs and activities that are developed through sustained collaboration between educators, students, and community organizations. The goal of the practices outlined is to move beyond finding effective ways of educating students to engaging educators and community organizations in a dialogue to address issues in their communities. Excerpted from the original document written by 2000-2001 National Service Fellow Danika Brown.

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