Redesign of a Service-Learning Social Entrepreneurship Program for High School Students Part II: Prototyping a Hybrid Expeditionary Service-Learning Model.

LearnServe Abroad is an international, summer, service-learning, high school program with a short, local, post-trip, social entrepreneurship component. Founded in 2003 in Washington, DC, it has faced a number of difficulties. Motivation and engagement issues, drop-outs, incomplete or untouched entrepreneurial projects, homesickness during trips, team dynamics issues, and lack of preparation for the international trips were a portion of the problems uncovered during discovery research. Based on that research, in order to redesign the LearnServe Abroad program, we utilized the Hybrid Expeditionary Service-Learning (HESL) model -- a new service-learning model that employs an expeditionary learning design and embeds both the classes and service of the service-learning program within learning expeditions. The paper highlights how and why the research synthesis and design principle outcomes led to the HESL model, and how it was used to redesign the LearnServe Abroad program. We demonstrate how the expeditionary learning model reinforces the service-learning and the service-learning model reinforces the expeditionary learning for the new LearnServe Abroad prototype. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]