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Situating Global Service-Learning: Drawing on Diverse Fields for Informed Practice
Global service-learning ultimately draws upon several discrete areas of literature and practice: community development, reflective practice, learning and assessment, health and safety, global civic engagement, and power and privilege. A regular theme of this site is that global service-learning practice requires great … Continue reading
Participatory Standards Development: Best Practices in Global Service-Learning
A participatory process of developing and strengthening best practice principles in global service-learning is underway. At the 12th Annual International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference in Baltimore, MD, scores of global service-learning practitioners and community partners … Continue reading
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For Good Or For Ill? Community Impact in Global Service-Learning
While there is a growing body of research relating to community outcomes of global service-learning projects, one of the challenges the field faces is becoming increasingly specific and nuanced about both understanding and - to the extent possible - working … Continue reading
Can critical global engagement be to colonialism in international development what service-learning is to charity in community development? Thoughts from IARSLCE 2012
By Nadia De Leon What does quality engagement across cultural differences, locally and abroad, look like for faculty and students in American universities? After participating in many inspiring discussions at this year’s IARSCLE, two words I have often utilized before … Continue reading
Conferences Past, Community-Building Forward: Critical, Concerned, Applied, and Open
October is an exciting month for the Building a Better World Forum, as we are building on insights and relationships from the 2012 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and Intercultural Horizons conferences. Additionally, we are … Continue reading