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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
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
Challenging Video from UC-Berkeley’s #GlobalPOV Project asks, “Is Privilege Poverty?”
“What motivates us to travel short or long distances, to spend a day, a week, many months, or even a spare 15 minutes, in service to a community we may know very little about? This poverty action we’re seeking to … Continue reading
Northwestern International Service-Learning Summit Gathering Steam! Register Now.
The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University are hosting the International Service Learning Summit from October 23-25, 2013. Organizers recently announced the keynote speaker, UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social … Continue reading
Giving Back? Short-Term International Volunteer Programs in Health
Judith N. Lasker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University, has been deeply immersed in research on international health volunteerism. Below she has offered a summary of her forthcoming book. She has also been kind enough to share guidelines for … 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
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