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Bridging the Distance: Service Learning in International Perspective
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Florman, Jean C.; Just, Craig; Naka, Tomomi; Peterson, Jim; Seaba, Hazel H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
In this article, the authors describe how an existing partnership between two communities, one in eastern Iowa and one in Mexico, was turned into a cross-disciplinary and international service learning course for students in the University of Iowa Colleges of Engineering, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts and Sciences. The projects that students worked…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Community Development