Arts & The Moral Imagination – A Call for Conversation
I’ve been inspired by Imagining America (IA), which works to create “democratic spaces to foster and advance publicly engaged scholarship that draws on arts, humanities, and design.” Public, Imagining America’s Journal, has a call for submissions on Globally Engaged Scholarship and Creative Practice. That call, combined with some of my own work, has caused me to wonder about how we use art to expand the moral imagination. I ask that question here, using the photo / text / voice reflective format possible on Cowbird. Next week I’ll share some of my own response to the question. Here or on Cowbird (where adding one photo…
How does Global Service-Learning become a dis-service in healthcare settings? Commentary from Child Family Health International
Jessica Evert, MD, Executive Director, Child Family Health International, Faculty, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine I received an email from a US undergraduate student in April 2013 that read: “I am trying to establish a long-term and impactful relationship between the student body and the villages and small towns of South Africa. students, who have a reputation for being extremely medically-driven, would be very interested in serving the communities medically, whether it is through patient advocacy, disease/illness awareness, or being able to directly participate in minor surgeries and procedures.” The email went on to ask me if the student…
Designing & Delivering a Service-Learning Course
An online resource from Dr. Matt Roy, Assistant Provost & Director of the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, UMASS Dartmouth, and Dr. Dwight Giles, Professor, College of Education and Human Development and Senior Associate with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education
3rd International Service-Learning Summit, March 4 – 6, Duke University
DukeEngage will host the third International Service Learning Summit (ISL),”Global Community Partnerships” on March 4-6, 2015, at the Durham Convention Center, in Durham, NC. To REGISTER visit the conference WEBSITE. The goal of the of this year’s summit is to bring together those involved in global, community-based, experiential or service-learning programs to discuss effective models and strategies for outreach and to create a community of practice designed to sustain collaboration after the meeting ends. Therefore, the Summit agenda will foster an environment that encourages active learning through select speakers, guided discussion, case studies, and interest groups with a focus on…
Growing as Faculty, with Students, through Partnership in Haiti
Global service-learning, as has been suggested on this website and in the broader literature, operates in a tension. Student-learning and university goals often operate on short-term time horizons and course-based or academic-year commitments. Community development is a multi-year, ongoing process, while the achievement of social justice is an aim that – if it can even be thought of in time-bound ways – operates at the level of historic thinking. One of the ironies at the heart of this tension is that social justice and community development thinking often do no resonate until individuals have had transformational global service-learning experiences (Kiely,…
Is Your University "a Force for Social Good"?
Originally published November 10, 2014. The University of Santa Clara’s Rev. Michael C. McCarthy, professor of religious studies and classics, remembered the martyrs from the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education. This month will “mark the 25th anniversary of the killings of eight people on its campus, including six Jesuit priests: the president, vice president, and leading faculty members.” These people were martyred because of their support for rights for all people; they were killed because they employed their privileged and powerful faculty positions to call attention to extreme poverty, state abuses, and oppression. I had…
Considering Design Principles for GOOD Global Service-Learning (GSL) Projects within the Academy:
Musings on Intent and Vulnerability Susan Crichton, PhD (susan.crichton(at)ubc.ca), Cynthia Bourne (cindy.bourne(at)ubc.ca), Deb Carter (deb.carter(at)ubc.ca) Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia Okanagan Locally-developed folktale books are delivered to Bolgatanga, Ghana. The texts will be used in regional schools to supplement existing Ghanaian curriculum. Introduction Our ongoing work at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan (UBC O) campus, a research-intensive university, has helped us to modify a set of global service-learning (GSL) project design principles. Specifically, working with colleagues in both East and West Africa, we are developing a set of design principles that inform our practice and can be…
Community-Based & Policy Level Experts on Orphanage Tourism
The orphanage tourism conversation is going viral. Our September 5 post on Why UNICEF and Save the Children are Against Your Short-Term Service in Orphanages has gotten nearly 15,000 hits in the last three days. Questions and critique show up in the comment string, as well as calls for deeper background. We are therefore sharing two hour-long presentations here, by an individual who works directly with this issue in Nepal, and another individual who has coordinated a global, child-protection-focused, inter-agency initiative directly tied to orphanage tourism. In the first video, Martin Punaks, Country Director for Next Generation Nepal (NGN) presents an Overview of Orphanage…
Guest Bloggers Upcoming! Special GSL Series
More than fifty global service-learning (GSL) scholars and practitioners responded to the call for papers for the GSL special section in the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning (MJCSL). In the spirit of field-building, reflective thinking, and sharing, several of those individuals have agreed to share reflective posts and program descriptions here. In the coming weeks we will feature guest blog posts from: Susan Crichton, Cynthia Bourne, and Deb Carter, University of British Columbia Okanagan Eric Eller, Loras College, and Katrina Farren-Eller, Upper Iowa University Jessica Evert, Child Family Health International Elenor (Megan) Francis, Rutgers University Aileen Hale, Global Service Partnerships Trisha Gott and Chance…
Pushing Boundaries: Introduction to the Global Service-Learning Special Section (MJCSL)
The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Editor, Jeffrey Howard, has graciously agreed to allow us to post this introduction to the special section on global service-learning. The special section begins with the recently released issue of the journal and will continue with the spring issue. Please cite the text below as: Hartman, E. & Kiely, R. (2014). Pushing boundaries: Introduction to the global service-learning special section. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 21(1): 55 – 63. Eric Hartman Richard Kiely Kansas State University…
Fair Trade Learning: Summary & Key Documents
Fair Trade Learning is global educational partnership exchange that prioritizes reciprocity in relationships through cooperative, cross-cultural participation in learning, service, and civil society efforts. It foregrounds the goals of economic equity, equal partnership, mutual learning, cooperative and positive social change, transparency, and sustainability. Fair Trade Learning explicitly engages the global civil society role of educational exchange in fostering a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. – (Hartman, Morris Paris, & Blache-Cohen, 2013). https://vimeo.com/153249405 For the second time in just a few months, Fair Trade Learning: Ethical standards for community-engaged international volunteer tourism is among the top ten most-read articles in Sage…
Global Service-Learning @IARSLCE
As we prepared for the 2014 International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Conference, we were: Excited to see 19 of over 100 separate sessions @IARSLCE explicitly focus on global service learning! http://t.co/TkIcnD9YUH — Globalsl.org (@BuildingBetterW) September 25, 2014 Many colleagues have shared those conference presentations for posting here, while others have indicated they will share guest blog posts or further reflections in the months to come. Enjoy the eleven presentations below, and look forward to more on the way. Learning Journey toward Leadership within an Intercultural Service-Learning Program Kathryn Burleson, Justin Levy, Julia…
Service learning and citizenship development contextualized by globalization
By Jessica Murphy “From today and into the future, the horizons for developing identity, for creating a good life, need to be global” (Chickering, 2009, p. 3). This blog entry is offered to you as the collected thoughts of fine scholars and good thinkers and doers. And is presented to you by me- a doctoral candidate seeped in coffee, in love with pencils and yellow tablets, and full of gratitude for you- the people who do this work. What follows is my explanation of what I hear others saying- a second hand conveyance. I find myself in your good company,…
Consortium of Universities for Global Health Sponsors Reflective Writing Contest
What? The third annual CUGH Trainee Reflection Essay Contest highlighting reflection in global health education and practice. This year there are two themes, “Social Justice” and “Messages of Hope and Optimism,” as well as an open category for essays not reflecting those themes. See the details below. Who? Trainees from undergraduate/university level, graduate/professional level and post-graduate levels are eligible to submit an essay to the contest. When? Submissions are due by 11pm EST on December 1, 2014. Decisions on winners and runner-ups will be announced on January 15, 2015. A select group of winners will be invited to read their…
What many people don't know about #globaldev is…
What many people don’t know about #globaldev is this… pic.twitter.com/JgHK5sZNUt — How Matters (@intldogooder) October 14, 2014 Sometimes a tweet is good enough to make permanent. Here at globalsl.org, we are thrilled to keep learning from participatory and cooperative development models and thoughtful global development thinkers like Jennifer Lentfer, who hangs her hat at How Matters and Georgetown University.
Ted Talk Connects New Media, Student Learning, World on Fire
The civic engagement, service-learning, and – more broadly – experiential learning movements in higher education have long focused on engaging students as co-creators of knowledge and understanding. This is frequently positioned against a dominant educational model critiqued as autocratic, technocratic, and/or actively disengaging . Rarely have we seen these issues conveyed as concisely and clearly as presented here by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch. Wesch also challenges us to be conscious of the role of new media in sharing ownership of learning and knowledge co-creation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8 TEDxKC talk synopsis: “Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new…
Learning into Cultural Humility and Social Change
I’m using the experience below to frame my plenary presentation at the 4th Annual Intercultural Horizons Conference: Currents in Community Development, Civic Engagement, and Intercultural Competence. In short, the intercultural competence, civic engagement, and global development literatures still have a great deal to learn from one another. But that’s my academic analysis. The story below may be more interesting. – EH
International Service-Learning Summit, March 4 – 6, Duke University
At Duke in March 2015, the The International Service Learning Summit will bring together those involved in global, community-based, experiential or service learning efforts to examine critical issues facing the field and create an agenda for developing and measuring our success as international educators. This year, our focus will be community partnership. Host: DukeEngage, Duke University, Durham, NC Co-Hosts: Center for Social Development and Gephardt Institute for Public Service, Washington University in St. Louis; Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University; in collaboration with the Building Bridges Coalition (BBC)
New Book Embraces Critical Perspectives on Global Service-Learning
Crossing Boundaries: Tension and Transformation in International Service-Learning*, edited by Patrick Green and Mathew Johnson “Crossing Boundaries is an honest, insightful and timely collection of perspectives that critically explore the tensions that so many international service-learning faculty and coordinators feel and see as we facilitate these important yet complicated learning experiences. Together, the authors share stories and ideas about student learning, partnerships and experiences that worked well, and just as importantly that didn¹t work; and what they learned. Overall, the depth and breadth of this compilation of perspectives is needed at this point in our field¹s history.”―Tommy J. Van Cleave, Director…
7th Annual Cornell Global Service-Learning Institute: November 5 – 7
Advancing Community Driven Global Service-Learning: Promising Practices Cornell University, New York Campus Compact, Amizade Global Service-Learning The 7th annual Global Service-Learning Institute will build upon established institute strengths in global service-learning pedagogy and program development, while also integrating more explicit attention to best practices in community-based planning, community development, and movement-building within global service-learning. This year’s Institute will feature Patti Clayton, a national expert on community and civic engagement, and a focus on assessment strategies and linking assessment to learning outcomes. The GSLI provides the space, time, and faculty consultation to enable new and seasoned service-learning faculty to deepen their practice and understanding…
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