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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: What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service
Title: What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service Authors: Adam Davis Target Audience: Students, Faculty, Citizens Date: 2006 Succinct Summary: In order to claim that Service Is Good (SIG), we must discuss why we do service, (for altruistic, selfish, or faith-based … 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
What is Enough? Educating for Transformation, Seeking More
Julia Lang, one of our regular contributors, just completed three weeks of teaching at the Civic Leadership Institute. After interacting with a homeless person on the way home one night, Julia found herself wondering what more she could do. She offers … 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
Americanah: Strong Characters, Propelling Narrative, Global and Local Lenses, Class and Race
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie provides a beautiful and humane entry point into the profound impact of race, nationality, and migration policy both domestically and globally. It takes place in Nigeria, the UK, and the US, and it is everything other … 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
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