Building a Better World

If you struggle with the relationship between education and transformation, if you are deeply concerned with social challenges, injustices, and building a better future for our children and grandchildren – this site is for you.  We have:

• A Global Service-Learning research wiki that pulls together peer-reviewed research, as well as books, chapters, dissertations, and reports relevant to GSL
• A tools and syllabi wiki that compiles resources relevant for program development, reflective exercises, community partnership, and course development in GSL
• Web resources relevant to community-driven development, justice, human rights, and critically reflective experiential education
• The Building a Better World Blog, where we will continue to foster, invite, and share discussion relevant to critically engaged global service-learning. Please feel free to send a discussion idea or post proposal: buildingbetterworld(at)gmail(dot)com
• An overview of our book, Building a Better World: The Pedagogy and Practice of Global Service-learning

This site was started by several individuals who have worked with community organizations around the world. We have benefited immensely from the insights we’ve been afforded through that work. We continue to struggle, try, discover, and learn on a regular basis how we can better align our lives with community-driven, fair, just efforts to build a world that better recognizes each individual’s core human dignity.

Our particular vocation has been global service-learning, but we recognize the substantial connections between any individual’s interests in justice and resources shared through these pages. We have therefore deliberately built a platform that allows ongoing sharing, building, questioning, and collaboration from all visitors to this site. Our current resources include information on community development, global citizenship, human rights, fair trade, conscious consumption, sustainability, education, transformation, and reflection.

We look forward to the discussion and ongoing efforts to build a better world.