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The Hole in Our Helping, part 3: Entitlement, Sentimentality, & Assessment Constraints
The final installment in a three-part contribution to the faith, values, and service-learning series by Richard Slimbach: 5. Entitlement and sentimentality Global political economy tends to commodify and commercialize most everything, including global philanthropy. Not surprisingly, student-volunteers, their parents, and even global educators … Continue reading
The Hole in Our Helping, part 2: Service versus Charity, Institutional Self-Interest, & Individualist Ethos
The second of a three-part contribution to the faith, values, and service-learning series by Richard Slimbach: 2. Charity orientation Once we’ve resolved the questions of who our neighbors are, and what our moral obligations are to them, the question we’re left with is … Continue reading
The Hole in our Helping - Part 1
“So, how do our member NGOs stand to benefit from your students’ involvement?” The first of a three-part contribution to the faith, values, and service-learning series by Richard Slimbach: Several weeks ago I was in Addis Ababa, sitting with the director of … Continue reading
Light, Poignant, Beautiful - Learning to Dance, anew, Around the World
This week the blogosphere has been buzzing with the release of Matt Harding’s latest global dancing video. The newest piece, which you should absolutely watch to ease into an optimistic and engaging weekend, is below. The best commentary I’ve seen … Continue reading
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The Goals of Jewish Service-Learning
By Jon Levisohn Jewish service-learning is a hot topic, and rightly so. Funders, policy makers and academics have noticed a groundswell of activism and energy in the Jewish world, especially among young people, and have hopped on board. This has … Continue reading
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Serving Our Neighbors: Learning across the Lines that Divide Us
By Chad Frey As many pundits have pointed out, the upcoming elections have inaugurated silly season in Washington. If only this could be dismissed as a passing period of political frivolity so we could all get back to the task … Continue reading
Teaching Catholic Social Thought through Global Service-Learning
By Rachel Tomas Morgan All institutions of higher education have to answer questions that arise from challenges to their larger social role and their particular educational aims. Yet by their very existence, faith-based universities are also obligated to the institution’s … Continue reading
Voluntourism Debate, Cambodian Orphanages, & The Need for Better Standards and Data
Al Jazeera’s The Stream recently profiled a People and Power documentary on the so-called voluntourism industry with a new expose-style piece on Cambodian orphanages. The thirty-minute clip (below) raises several important questions and begs for tighter focus and analysis. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQcTpRjJi7o?feature=player_embedded] … Continue reading
Faith & Service-Learning: Embracing Difficult Questions
By Jessica Friedrichs The Seventh National Faith-Based Service-Learning Conference held at Messiah College near Harrisburg, PA this weekend embraced difficult conversations. For those of us in the world of local and global service-learning difficult conversations abound. For some of us, … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Reflections from the Field, Service-Learning, Values
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Faith & Service-Learning Series Kicking Off
Two recent conferences have prompted considerable pause and reflection. During the weeks to come we’ll share reflections and many resources from the 5th Annual Cornell Global Service-Learning Institute. But this week we’ll kick off a series of posts relating to … Continue reading
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