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Kevin G. Guerrieri; P. Víctor Zambrano – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
The article analyzes two fundamental questions that emerge as institutions of higher education seek to advance global health equity: What are the motivations driving these initiatives, and within which paradigms of engagement do they enter into collaboration with communities? An examination of the tensions and paradoxes of geopolitical paradigms…
Descriptors: Service Learning, International Programs, Student Motivation, Student Participation
Leroy, William Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Institutions of higher education seek to promote global citizenship among students. International Service-Learning (ISL) programming is a common approach to further those ends. While ISL programming has been shown to promote global citizenship in the short term, few studies have persuasively demonstrated its impact is lasting. It has been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Learning, Global Approach, Citizenship Education
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Anderson, Roger W. – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2023
To understand how ISL addresses linguistic difference between participants and host communities, a qualitative content analysis of recent peerreviewed articles in which programs were described as having addressed linguistic difference. Nearly half of the literature did not explicate how language was addressed. Across 25 programs, seven methods…
Descriptors: International Programs, Study Abroad, Service Learning, Intercultural Communication
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Alison Kreger – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Service-learning is a form of experiential-learning being incorporated into many academic programs to enable students to practice skills learned in class while providing a service to communities in need. Being able to justify the implementation of service-learning experiences can be a challenge. Some benefits include increased awareness of global…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Behavior, Professional Development, Individual Development
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Andrew M. Robinson; Robert Kwame Ame – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
This study assesses the extent to which a medium-term international service learning (ISL) project led by a Canadian university in partnership with sub-Saharan African universities achieves five objectives with respect to the interns: increasing local and global community engagement, activating leaders, developing global citizens, personal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Service Learning, Citizen Participation
Kaitlin Long; Mac Benavides; Trisha Gott; Chibuzor Azubuike – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2022
In addition to many global disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions of higher education within the United States were forced to move classes online and put a pause to many initiatives. Areas that were particularly affected by the pandemic were education abroad and global service-learning (GSL) programs. As GSL programs resume…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Global Approach, Partnerships in Education, International Programs
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Katie Dudley; Vinod Sasidharan; Marisa Reyes-Orta; Jose T. Olague – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
Service learning (SL) engages students in intentional, collaborative service experiences that promote civic citizenship. The COVID-19 pandemic forced traditional face-to-face SL courses to transition into virtual service learning (e-SL). This paper examines the academic and civic outcomes of an e-SL binational sustainable tourism course for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness
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Kathleen Sexsmith; Richard Kiely – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
Global service-learning (GSL) course offerings have expanded rapidly in the last decade at U.S. universities and colleges, yet faculty are not always prepared for the ethical challenges of development work with disadvantaged communities in international settings. Based on a qualitative study of 25 GSL faculty across a range of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Learning, Global Approach, International Programs
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Wilson, Rachelle; Látková, Pavlína; Yoshino, Aiko; Sheffield, Emilyn – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
Background: Engagement in volunteer activities is an experience that many students may not prioritize due to lack of time and interest. Purpose: This research examines the use of International Service Learning (ISL) as a potential platform to positively change student perceptions of volunteerism. Methodology/Approach: Multiple methods (interviews,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Cultural Awareness, Student Volunteers, Student Attitudes
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Chambers, Dianne; Lavery, Shane – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
This study explores the experiences and perceptions of 13 Australian early childhood, primary and secondary pre-service teachers who undertook a two-week international service-learning immersion in an educational setting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Qualitative data were collected pre-immersion through an anonymous questionnaire, and post-immersion…
Descriptors: International Programs, International Schools, Service Learning, Early Childhood Teachers
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Amerson, Roxanne; Parker-Manderson, Jade; Garrison, Chloe; Finleyson, Sarah; Kunkle, Michelle; Santos Dominguez, Cesar Rolando – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2021
Traditionally, evaluation of global service-learning (SL) programs has been highly focused on student outcomes, rather than community impact. Less documentation exists regarding the impact of SL on the partnerships between the community and higher education. The purposes of this case study are to present the concept of Fair Trade Learning (FTL) as…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Global Approach, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Yarbrough, Elizabeth; Matthew, Stephanie; Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This article examines the phenomena of mismatched expectations on international nursing service-learning trips and the resulting dissonance those expectations can produce in trip participants. The work of Festinger and others are used as a theoretical framework for recognizing the elements of dissonance and how to navigate through the various…
Descriptors: Expectation, Psychological Patterns, Study Abroad, Travel
Finley, Laura L., Ed.; Bowen, Glenn A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
This edited volume focuses on best practices in experiential learning. Chapters address service-learning, community-based research, international efforts and other experiential methods, highlighting innovative approaches, successes, and issues of concern. Further, the book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of experiential education,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Amigó, María Florencia; Bilous, Rebecca; Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This article delves into the controversies of student volunteers working around children in developing world contexts, by proposing a model where the organisations that send and those that receive volunteers can collaborate to ensure volunteers' purposeful involvement. The article is based on the results of a collaborative initiative between an…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Developing Nations, Nongovernmental Organizations
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Lesnick, Alice; Bahn, Hannah – Power and Education, 2018
This article compares two neo-liberal education reform activities that are not often studied in tandem: alternative teacher certification in the USA, as explored through Teach for America, and the growing international service learning movement. Guided by the Movement for Black Lives' call for a world where those "most impacted in our…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Alternative Teacher Certification, Service Learning
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