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Reflection is central to service-learning done well. It advances intercultural understanding and cross-cultural communication skills. It is the key component in deliberately fostering a global perspective. It is, in short, the foundation for learning deeply about self, others, values, and … Continue reading →

Tools relevant for service, development, and community partnership include both teaching tools (to better explore the concepts) and applied tools (to facilitate partnership). For classroom consideration: The What is Global Service? activity stimulates dialogue and may be adapted to individual … Continue reading →

Numerous philosophical, political, and sociological texts have broached the topic of global citizenship, along with increasing amounts of research and writing within GSL, but provocative articles for generalist GSL participants remain less common. In Becoming More Human; Building a Better … Continue reading →

Numerous resources exist to stimulate targeted, reflective thinking on intercultural communication, competency, self-understanding, and comprehension of positionality in respect to power and privilege. It’s ideal to consider these activities in light of the overarching course planning and reflection process. The … Continue reading →

Please share your syllabi as you develop GSL courses. We will offer them as examples here to support other faculty members’ syllabus development efforts. The Global Service-Learning Syllabus has been used by numerous institutions and faculty members interested in offering a … Continue reading →

Course planning is an often-under appreciated process, whether in conventional courses or GSL. While specific activities may help with particular goals such as development of global or intercultural competency, deeper understanding of positionality, or more nuanced comprehension of academic content, … Continue reading →

We encourage contributions to this wiki. If you have a contribution, please organize it according to the parameters below and send it in an email to buildingbetterworld(at)gmail(dot)com. We are listing by research topic area, in respect to the following topics: Reflective … Continue reading →

Significant research has been central to the development of best practices in global service-learning. We list these pieces immediately below and offer article abstracts farther down the page. Every effort is made to list the abstracts in the same order … Continue reading →

Significant research and literature has helped us understand power and privilege and how to better address them in our work. We list these pieces immediately below and offer article abstracts farther down the page. Every effort is made to list … Continue reading →

Significant research has been central to the development of best practices developing intercultural communication capabilities, understanding of self and positionality. We list these pieces immediately below and offer article abstracts farther down the page. Every effort is made to list … Continue reading →