International Service Learning and Leadership Elective

Raffles Leadership Institute’s (RLI) Philosophy
Our approach to leadership development is guided by the following principles:

Leadership is a critical educational outcome that has to be purposefully and intentionally developed.
All students have the potential to be developed into leaders.
Students have to be active practitioners of leadership and not just passive learners.
Learning to be leaders is a long-term, developmental process.
The overarching purpose of leadership development is to equip students to contribute effectively and responsibly to society.

Our Pedagogical Approach
The RLI engages learners through real-world experiential learning. Through both direct and indirect experience of authentic situations, staff and students engage with the community and the environment to create meaningful learning opportunities.

We seek to build an environment of mutual respect that fosters personal relationships conducive to growth and leadership development, with staff and students alternating between the roles of those teaching and the taught.

Mission & Vision
The mission of RLI is to develop young people to be effective leaders of character, equipped with personal mastery and inter-personal skills, and anchored with a strong sense of social responsibility and commitment to service for the public good. 

The over-arching objective is to nurture future leaders for Singapore, imbued with the Rafflesian values of fortitude, integrity, respect and enterprise, and committed to using their talents for service to nation and community.

International Service-Learning and leadership Elective (ISLE) is a programme that aims to develop young people to be effective leaders of character with relevant skills to be community leaders and competent global citizens who are confident and sensitive in their interactions with different cultures. Experiential in nature, it prepares youth to be adaptive thinkers to ideate and co-construct meaning by making connections for deep engagement with local communities in Singapore and overseas communities in the ASEAN region. 

To develop empathy and gain perspectives of how wheelchair users and caregivers navigate their neighbourhood, students had an experiential session at Kampung Senang Mobility Aids Services & Training Centre.

ISLE week is a one of the significant event of the ISLE journey where students fund raise for their project entirely upon return from their June recce trip.

ISLE culminates with a year end trip where students will execute their planned refurbishment projects and enrichment sessions with the local pupils for meaningful interaction.