‘Some people don't deserve help’: service learning in Serbia

In post‐conflict, emerging democracies, service learning has great potential to promote intercultural understanding if projects encourage students to see each other as individuals rather than as members of marginalized groups. This paper evaluates a service learning project in a Serbian secondary school and suggests ways in which service learning might effectively be implemented in similar countries. U postkonfliktnim mladim demokratskim drustvima, “service learning” ima veliki potencijal da promoviŝe multikulturno razumevanje. Moj argument u ovom radu je da nastavno osoblje ukoliko želi da smanji netolerantnost kod učenika, treba da primeni service learning projekte. Njima bi podstakli učenike da ne posmatraju jedni druge kao marginzovane grupe već kao pojedince. Moji zakljuŝči su zasnovani na iskustvu stečenom na Service learning projektu u srednjoj ŝkoli u Srbiji. Vrednovala sam projekat i sugerirala načine na koje service learning može biti primenjen u Srbiji i drzavama sličnim Srbiji.