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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
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
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 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
Power, Privilege, and Film
Development history demonstrates that many efforts to do good have led to unintended, negative, and even disastrous outcomes. Communicating just how this works – and that this is not an isolated historical issue but an ongoing, embedded development concern – … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Films, Power and Privilege, Teaching Resources
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Evaluating Development Interventions: Esther Duflo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvrGiPkVcs
Esther Duflo shares her insights as MIT economist and director of the Poverty Action Lab, where she and colleagues have developed randomized evaluations to answer critical questions relating to poverty alleviation. Mentioned in the previous post on teaching resources and evaluating development interventions.
Posted in Africa, Development, Evaluation
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Kony 2012 and Policy Prescription. More Teaching Resources to Step into the Bigger Picture
The viral video phenomenon does contain a policy prescription: capture Kony. While much of the debate and criticism relates to concern with misrepresentation or lack of agency for Ugandans in the video, focusing analysis on the action suggested for governments … Continue reading
Teaching Resources: Responsible Advocacy, Kony 2012, Invisible Children, and Humility
When have I known all there is to know about a policy question? Probably never. I don’t imagine I’ll ever known all there is to know about the effects of action or inaction by states, armies, corporations, or people populating … Continue reading
Teaching Resources: Development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
Much of the buzz around Kony 2012 and Invisible Children comes from a deep desire to build a better world – a place more equitable and just for all children. I’m therefore sharing Hans Rosling as an excellent resource for introductions to what’s happening and has happened as far as tracking development is concerned. A few things that I think are highly relevant about this video. Rosling begins by surveying his students and colleagues. Seeing a gap between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it, he insightfully states, “the problem for me was not ignorance, it was preconceived ideas.” (This is further discussed in the previous post, but at the time I was not able to embed videos).
Posted in Africa, Development, Teaching Resources
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