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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
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
Technical, practical or critical: What is the state of ISL research?
By Jessica Arends International service learning (ISL) facilitates two long-standing goals of higher education: to prepare students for citizenship and the ability to understand and appreciate other cultures (Plater, 2010). However, much of service-learning research has been conducted from a … 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
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