Peer Support Video
A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on the role that peer support can play in supporting student success. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/PeerSupport/index.html
C2C Peer Advocate Training Webinar 2
This webinar video is the second part of a 2-part webinar series, serving as a companion to C2C Resource Guide Appendix 3-2. This appendix includes sample lessons for improving student success: motivation & self-regulation. This webinar provides strategies for peer advocates and faculty to support C2C students with reflection on and developing positive motivational beliefs and self-regulation skills.
C2C Peer Advocate Training Webinar 1
These webinar videos a & B make up the first lesson in a 2-part webinar series that serves as a companion to C2C Resource Guide Appendix 3-2. This Appendix focuses on sample lessons for improving student success: identity & self-concept. This webinar provides strategies for peer advocates and faculty to support C2C students with reflecting on and developing self-efficacy and a college-staying identity. WEBINAR 1: PART A WEBINAR 2: PART B
To Improve Retention, Community Colleges Teach Self-Esteem
Campus Compact’s Connect2Complete program has been featured in the article “To Improve Retention, Community Colleges Teach Self-Esteem” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Connect2Complete (C2C) tries to tackle the problem that many students in community colleges face – that taking remedial education classes, otherwise known as developmental education classes, can be discouraging. The program uses service-learning to empower students. This approach is not generally found in community colleges, however C2C “flips it upside down and introduces community service and community engagement right from the start” says Krista Kiessling, service-learning director at Owens Community College, one of the participating colleges. “Putting…
Engaging, Disorienting, Transforming: Critical Reflection and Global Citizen Identity Development
Sarah Stanlick, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA As educators and researchers, there are many hopes that we hold for our learners. For post-secondary learners, we find ourselves responsible not only for content delivery but their individual identity development as scholars and citizens. Curriculum is planned for explicit and implicit learning, using the best theories and pedagogy we understand to facilitate such individual growth. In the field of global citizenship, the focus is on encouraging students to open up to the larger world, become more ethnoculturally empathetic, tolerant of ambiguity, and engaged in active civic endeavors. As Noddings (2005) affirms, a global…
Diversity, Community & Service
REQUIRED TEXTS (available at PC Bookstore) Margaret L. Andersen & Patricia Hill Collins, eds. Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology. Charles Taylor, et al. Multiculturalism. …and other readings to be provided in class. COURSE DESCRIPTION One of the core requirements for Public Service majors and minors, this course is offered for the first time this spring. As such, I will be experimenting with format, reading materials, and assignments. You will have as much to say about the final form this course takes as this syllabus– to borrow (sort of) my colleagues’ words, this will not be a “virtual syllabus,” but…
Ethical Photography Contest: 4 Guidelines, 4 Examples, $100 Prize
There are many more photos representing ethical partnership, learning, and service across cultures than we have seen in the contest thus far. You suggested the original contest guidelines were too long. We listened. The short version is below. Entry information follows. – Ethical Photography & Global Service: 4 Principles, 4 Examples – 1. Choose photos that represent the people truthfully and show dignity, equality, support and integrity. MUDELFU Women’s Cooperative President Araceli del Carmen Bonilla Hernandez (left) and Foundation for Sustainable Development Intern Ellen Duvall (right) cooperate to advance sustainable, community-driven development in Tola, Nicaragua. 2. Ensure those being represented in the images maintain the right…
The Latest on Fair Trade Learning: Forum on Education Abroad Presentation
Colleagues across campuses and community organizations have continued to dialogue about and advance Fair Trade Learning. After emerging as a response to the alarming marketization and perverse incentives embodied by the international volunteer sector, Fair Trade Learning continues to move forward a set of strategies that infuse global partnerships with reciprocity and ethics. Today’s presentation at the Forum on Education Abroad Conference, below, first situates Fair Trade Learning within the last several decades of international education history. It then shares the ideal’s origins and considers rubrics for discussing the various commitments with university and community stakeholders. Finally, the Foundation for Sustainable Development…
Developing Cultural Mindedness: An Open Access Guidebook
Kathryn Burleson, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC The intention of the Developing Cultural Mindedness guidebook is to facilitate an understanding and an outlook that will allow all stakeholders of intercultural service to have the most rich and meaningful experience possible. Designed for leaders and participants of intercultural service (broadly construed), the text and activities highlight how understanding oneself and others as cultural beings is the foundation for empathetic and respectful service. I am happy to share this as open-source resource. A brief story of how it came about: The idea to write this guidebook came from three non-profits that I…
A Circular Path to Solidarity: Continuous Partnership Development and 360˚ Evaluation in GSL
Kerry Stamp, Susan Appe, and Nadia Rubaii, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY This post is a reflection upon our experiences- one administrator and two faculty members- in implementing a summer Global Service Learning (GSL) program in Cusco, Peru in 2013 and 2014 through Binghamton University. For this program, the concept of solidarity is central to the academic coursework component; and achieving solidarity with our partners is an aim of the program. Therefore, we have been reflecting upon the question: How can we best advance solidarity between stakeholders in our program? Our reflections are informed by data from a multi-stakeholder evaluation process…
Ethical Photography Contest on Instagram! (Yes, still $100 prizes)
You spoke and we listened. Many of you are already on Instagram and ready to engage the Ethical Photography Contest framework there. Check out the rules – and know that you now have the option to choose Cowbird or Instagram to enter our Ethical Photography Contest. Simply follow the frameworks for ethical photography we have collected, then – Upload your photo to Instagram. Under “Write a caption…” tag #globalservice, #ethicalphotography and the appropriate entry category #crossculturalcooperation #mutuallearning #newpossibilities After adding your tags, share a brief reflection on how the photo meets the category (no more than a paragraph). Increase your odds…
3 Things I Personally Love about our First Ethical Photo Contest Entry
The first entry in our Global Service and Ethical Photography Contest is in – and there are three things about it that I find particularly awesome. First, the entry: Now what struck me about it: The photo is taken in the United States. I don’t find this exciting in an ethnocentric way, of course. But I am glad that the entrant paid close attention to how we use the word “global” at this website, in global service-learning research, and in the contest rules. What we’re looking for in the contest is images of mutual learning, cross-cultural cooperation, and the creation…
Duke International Service-Learning Summit Registration Deadline Thursday!
The International Service-Learning Summit is a two-day meeting that engages participants in purposeful dialogue about the field of global, immersive service. This year’s theme, “Global Community Partnerships” will be explored through a deliberate look at effective practice and community outcomes and perspectives. The Summit takes place March 4-6, 2015, at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina. The Registration Deadline of Thursday, 2/26, is quickly approaching! Featured keynote speakers include: Mark Gearan, President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and former director of the Peace Corps and Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Scholar and Director of Civic Learning and Democracy at the Association of American Colleges…
Call for Articles – Michigan Journal Special Section on Global Service-Learning
The Fall 2015 issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) will feature a second special section on global service-learning guest co-edited by Richard Kiely, Cornell University, and Eric Hartman, Kansas State University. Please consider submitting an article to this special section of the MJCSL. As framed in the introduction to the first special section on this topic that appeared in the Fall 2014 issue (Volume 21 Number 1), global service-learning is: a community-driven service experience that employs structured, critically reflective practice to better understand common human dignity; self; culture; positionality; socio-economic, political, and environmental issues; power relations;…
Promote Ethical and Informed Global Service, Win $100, Photo Contest
At globalsl.org, we believe intentions matter. And we believe most volunteers intend to do good work for the right reasons. We also believe information matters. And we know that global volunteerism can perpetuate stereotypes, harm children, and even cause physical injuries through inappropriate health interventions. We bring good intentions into tough contrast with challenging information, so that we can all work together to align intentions, ideals, and actions. It is in this spirit that we invite entries to our first Global Service & Ethical Photography Contest. Anyone who is interested and would like to engage in ethical photography can enter….
Framing the Photo Contest: 5 Essential Pulse Checks for International Development Communications
With opportunities for instant communication through social media comes an essential reminder for our upcoming photo contest, “to carefully consider all content before we hit publish.” Blogger and social-change enthusiast, Sophie Savage, shares five personal “pulse-checks” that promote ethical and responsible communication practices. Savage embraces the peril and possibility at the heart of our easily-enabled storytelling: For communication-savvy people, we consider this an enormous possibility. An increasingly digital world means an audience of listeners is open to us immediately, and eagerly waiting for the next thought to ponder, like, and re-share. We can blog, vlog, tweet, post, insta-everything. It’s inspiring, and begs…
Framing the Photo Contest: Insights from Ireland
Adding to the insights accumulated in preparation for our upcoming photo contest, the Irish Association of Non Governmental Development Organisations, Dochas, offers a Code of Conduct on Images and Messages. The Code of Conduct provides tools to support practitioners in communicating their messages in meaningful and ethical ways. Code signatories recognize that “values of human dignity, respect and truthfulness as outlined in the Code, must underlie all communications.” Perhaps such a code should exist among university civic engagement, alternative break, or global education programs. Stay tuned by signing up for email updates on the right, or following us on Twitter or Facebook. globalsl.org is…
Framing the Photo Contest: Use of Images of Children in the Media
In today’s technology-rich world, the use of images of children has become a matter of particular urgency. Issues such as informed consent, potential risks, and exploitation must be carefully considered by individuals as well as NGOs. In anticipation of our upcoming photo contest, we are sharing the Child Rights International Network’s Code of Conduct to “assist practitioners in their efforts to communicate their organisation’s programmes and values in a coherent and balanced way.” The network recognizes the important power and potential of thoughtful media, and offers insightful principles for practice, including: Choose images and related messages based on values of respect…
Framing the Photo Contest: Social Media & Volunteering
Irish NGO Comhlámh’s Guidelines for the Use of Social Media in Volunteering help us prepare for our upcoming photo contest. The concise code of conduct provides considerations for using images, messages and social media linked to overseas experiences. While social media can be a compelling communication tool, the “challenge is how to accurately represent those you live and work alongside, and effectively communicate the complexities of development.” Comhlámh asks, Do volunteers have a role to play in communicating messages about development? If so, what is this role? Whose perspectives on development are being represented? Stay tuned by signing up for email…
Michigan Journal Fall 2014: The Complete Special Section on Global Service-Learning
The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Editor, Jeffrey Howard, has graciously agreed to allow us to post all three of the articles that were part of the global service-learning special section in the Fall 2014 issue of the journal. The introduction to the special section, by Hartman & Kiely, has already been posted here. Below please find McMillan & Stanton’s “’Learning Service’ in International Contexts: Partnership-based Service-Learning and Research in Cape Town, South Africa,” as well as Pillard Reynold’s, “What Counts as Outcomes? Community Perspectives of an Engineering Partnership.” “Learning Service” in International Contexts: Partnership-based Service-Learning and Research in Cape Town, South…
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