ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an approach to service-learning that focuses on deepening a sense of interdependence as the foundation for powerful partnerships. As campuses stretch to co-create knowledge and actions that contribute to positive community change, community partners stretch to co-educate the students engaged in such efforts. However, to be successful, all forms of collective bodies need to be able to translate community change goals into possibilities for student transformation and student learning objectives into possibilities for community transformation. The core partnership model and sense of common fate and purpose demanded that the relationship move beyond one campus and one elementary school to extend the synergetic spirit of work throughout the district. Networked communities of practice require common spaces where community participants who share a common fate and recognize their common responsibility can gather, explore, share, and unite in social and civic change.
