Service learning as part of tertiary music programmes in South Africa: a framework for implementation

Abstract

As of 2009 service learning has been integrated into the music programme at the Odeion School of Music, University of the Free State (South Africa), as a compulsory module for final-year students. In order to uphold academic and institutional standards, it was stipulated that the said module had to include mechanisms that would promote quality interaction and engagement activities within a framework that would ensure the implementation and coordination of meaningful, sustainable service and learning.