Serving Clients in a Drug Rehabilitation Agency as a Vehicle to Promote Service Leadership in University Students

Abstract

A credit-bearing service-learning (SL) subject from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was developed with the aim of nurturing students’ service leadership through engaging them in quality service projects in real-life contexts. Based on the responses of 193 students, this chapter reports how the SL experience at Christian Zheng Sheng College promoted the well-being of PolyU students. The findings, based on the students’ written reflections and metaphors, revealed that their overall learning experience was positive and they were able to change their worldviews as well as their personal development.