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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
Are International Service-Learning Projects Sustainable? Where is the focus on the community?
By Nora Reynolds I come to this work as a practitioner- as a founding member and vice president of an international non-profit organization (www.waterforwaslala.org). In 2002, as a 21 year old recent college graduate, I traveled to rural Nicaragua with … Continue reading
The National Survey of Alternative Breaks: Using Both Qualitative and Quantitative Research to Understand Immersive and Global Service-Learning Experiences
Elizabeth Niehaus, University of Maryland Five years ago I had the good fortune to become involved in a research team at the University of Maryland – College Park, looking at the ways in which students make meaning of short-term immersion … 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
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
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. Watching the … Continue reading
5th Annual Global Service-Learning Institute at Cornell Imminent
In case you’ve missed it, an engaging opportunity for deep thinking and reflection on global service-learning is just around the corner. Here’s the institute announcement from New York Campus Compact: Do you currently teach a global/international service-learning course? Are you … Continue reading