Field Building in Global Service-Learning

Field Building in Global Service-­‐Learning

Richard Kiely | Jeffrey Howard| Eric Hartman | Nora Reynolds

IARSLCE | New Orleans, Louisiana | September 30, 2014

Editorial Process & Call • Global service-­‐learning is a community-­‐driven service experience that employs structured, criMcally reflecMve pracMce to beOer understand common human dignity; self; culture; posiMonality; socio-­‐economic, poliMcal, and environmental issues; power relaMons; and social responsibility, all in global contexts.

• Nearly 50 proposals • Blind peer review • Editorial review • 2+

How GSL is Distinctive • GSL is commiOed to student intercultural competence development • GSL has a focus on structural analysis Med to consideraMon of power, privilege, and hegemonic assumpMons • GSL takes place within a global markeMzaMon of volunteerism • GSL is typically immersive • GSL engages the criMcal global civic and moral imaginaMon.

Community Member Insights • Intended outcomes • Clean drinking water, electricity, improved health systems • Unintended Outcomes • Confianza • Sense of pride • Consciencia • Community as laboratory • Danger of oversimplificaAon • GSL as the an arrangement through which to pursue social jusAce

Learning Service as an Ontological Project • Partnerships as accompaniment and transparency • Learning service • CollaboraAve inquiry • Partnership development • Ontological project

Community of Practice • Website resources • Tools • Research • Blogs

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Online conversaMons?

Ithaca – November Duke – March Let us know…

ehartman@ksu.edu| rck6@cornell.edu | jphoward@umich.edu