GSL 5: Dignity and Justice in Global Service Learning, to be held at the University of Notre Dame (April 2018), seeks to create a space for active listening and critical dialogue between secular and faith-based organizations that are committed to co-educating and collaborating for social change and that wish to recover and re-examine the values which underlie the work.

Aligned with the GSL 5 Summit themes, we wanted to highlight resources from our archives that explore faith, values, and service-learning.

Faith and Service-Learning: Embracing Difficult Questions by Jessica Friedrichs, a Faculty Member in the School for Social Change and Coordinator of Service-Learning at Carlow University.

Teaching Catholic Social Thought through Global Service-Learning by Rachel Tomas Morgan, Associate Director of the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame.

Serving our Neighbors: Learning Across the Lines that Divide Us by Chad Frey, Director of theAgape Center for Service and Learning at Messiah College.

The Goals of Jewish Service-Learning by Jon Levisohn, Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and Assistant Director of The Mandel Center for Studies  in Jewish Educationat Brandeis University.

Three-part series by Richard Slimbach, Professor of Global Studies, Sociology, and TESOL at Azusa Pacific University.

Part 1 – The Hole in our Helping

Part 2 – Service versus charity, institutional self-interest, and individualist ethos

Part 3 – Entitlement, sentimentality, & assessment constraints

We hope these resources help to get the juices flowing as you all work on Summit proposals! Remember, the proposal submission deadline is August 11, 2017. You can view all information and online submission on the GSL 5 webpage.