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The chapter will explore an adjunct feature of values pedagogy, found when part of an integrated values programme but also when in freestanding form. Service learning as a pedagogy has its own following including professional associations, conferences and research outlets. Emanating largely from the USA, service learning proved to be an especially effective adjunct to a number of the Australian projects. It fits well with the notion that the best kind of knowledge is knowledge that is enlivened in practice, in this case practice that has potential to benefit the wider society and providing students with a sense of social agency.

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Lovat, T. (2019). Service Learning. In: The Art and Heart of Good Teaching. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9054-9_5

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