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Remembering the “Why”
In a reflective guest post, Northeastern University’s Lori Gardinier (PhD, MSW) challenges us to clarify WHY we engage in global service-learning. She couples clear-eyed realism, “some student projects have measurable impact and others are dead on arrival,” with idealistic hope … Continue reading
BotB: Walk Out Walk On
Title: Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now Authors: Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze Target Audience: Students Date: 2011 Succinct Summary: Filled with experience and vivid examples, Walk Out Walk On expresses … Continue reading
BotB: To Hell with Good Intentions by Ivan Illich
To kick-off our Best of the Best Global Service Learning series, we present a familiar source: To Hell with Good Intentions by Ivan Illich. Title: To Hell with Good Intentions Author: Ivan Illich Target Audience: Students Date: 1968 Succinct Summary: Ivan … Continue reading
Donations and their Global Flow through Art and Popular Media
By Elizabeth Rosenberg The New York Times Magazine traces the global flow of charitable clothing drives in How Susie Bayer’s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama’s Back. Had we ever considered that our donations may be sorted into a “wiper rag” … Continue reading
*Stuff* Study Abroad Students Say
It’s Study Abroad Fair Season! Students are being ushered to their respective unions in droves. They shuffle among institutional agreements, third-party providers, stories of transformative experiences, and glossy handouts and marketing swag. What are students hoping to find? What are … Continue reading
Lest Best Intentions become the Enemy of the Good
A regular reader called my attention to an essay shared on MN Campus Compact’s website; the piece appears below in full. The original author, Dr. Gerald W. Schlabach, was kind enough to extend the opportunity to reprint his thoughtful meditation … Continue reading
Transformation Experience: Service-Learning Student to Scholar
“While my peers were touring historical cities and partying until dawn, I was supervising children who were routinely beaten, sexually assaulted, or forced to work the streets all night long.” By Julia Lang The day that I left my service-learning … Continue reading
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
Where’s the Research in Global Service-Learning? A Four-Part Series
We know more about global service-learning all the time, although sometimes it feels like the field is growing so quickly that it’s hard to know what has already been systematically investigated, what methods have worked well, and what remains entirely … Continue reading
Genius, Vision, Ignorance and Expertise: Invisible Children’s Kony 2012
What is good global civic engagement? What are its assumptions regarding human dignity and emerging global community? How much expertise must global civil society participants exhibit, if any? How do our students’ study abroad experiences relate to their lives at … Continue reading