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Understanding International Service Learning: Goals, Models, and Reflections

Explore the definitions, goals, and models of International Service Learning (ISL), emphasizing reflection as a pedagogy tool. Discover key elements, types of programs, and examples of ISL in environmental issues.

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Understanding International Service Learning: Goals, Models, and Reflections

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  1. Session III:International Service Learning (ISL)

  2. Service Learning Definitions • “Definitions vary considerably… - Skinner and Chapman (1999) • More than 147 definitions - Kendall (1990) • Some grouped in SL philosophy • SL pedagogy of education • Some purely nominal

  3. Theoretical framework: ELSL Definitions Dewey’s philosophy establishes certain characteristics for SL: It is an experience or that it is experiential [theory] with the aim of a social justice goal; can be educative if it can be understood [reflection] while trying to establish that social balance.

  4. ISL Definition International service learning takes place when students’ academic learning occurs in a foreign contextreflecting around a carefully organized experience that aims to meet a specific community need or needs. The key component is that learning occurs through reflecting on the whole course experience that might involve comparisons, problems, confrontations, critical analysis, interactions, etc. In this context experiential learning is action oriented in that it involves interaction with the host community, requires reflecting upon different contexts and community’s dynamics deriving meaningful learning from the entire experience. - Pagano, 2005

  5. Goals of ISL • To enhance the academic content of the course through interaction with the host community • To develop intercultural Knowledge • To learn to be intercultural proficient • To learn specific issues in the host culture • To develop critical thinking skills through reflection pedagogy • To fully interact with the host community • To develop group goals that build community • To aim to reach the “reciprocity” concept • Other

  6. Types of ISL Programs • Faculty Led • Partnership • Direct Enrollment • Hybrid • Travel Embedded

  7. ISL Models: Academics

  8. Key Elements of ISL

  9. ISL Element’s Analyses

  10. Main Element: Worksite/Volunteer • Worksite needs to be tied into every part of the curriculum

  11. ISL: Mike Woolf • FIE • Foundation for International Education

  12. ISL Pedagogy: Reflection • Reflection: • The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. • Something, such as light, radiant heat, sound, or an image, that is reflected. • Mental concentration; careful consideration. • A thought or an opinion resulting from such consideration

  13. Reflection-Refraction • Reflection in Education • Dewey: Vehicle to think about our experiences • Critical Thinking: the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion

  14. Refraction • Refraction: The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density. • De-fantasize fate!

  15. Refraction Process

  16. Levels of Thought Analysis in II and ISL: Towards Refraction

  17. Refraction

  18. Refraction • Assessment and Evaluation • Knowledge • Subject Matter • Context • Skills • Ability to look at alternative perspective • Ability to interact with the host culture • Attitudes • Willingness to seek out international or intercultural opportunities • Accepts cultural differences and tolerates cultural ambiguity

  19. Refraction: Teamwork • What types of assignments? • What features do assignments need? • What logistics need to take place? • Other

  20. ISL and II Refraction Examples • Essay • Multiple choice • Journal • Portfolios • Presentations • Research Papers • Role-plays • Related Story Telling • Video Diary • Learning Logs • Re-entry activity*

  21. ISL and II Refraction Examples

  22. ISL: Environmental Issues After: “I drew the river with different colors. I drew the Tapajos river with brown to show its true color and then the Amazon in blue. The Tapajos River is a tributary of the Amazon. I mixed both colors where they get together. People here depend heavily on the river for anything they do. I never knew parts of the river are so polluted and it is creating so many problems for so many communities. We need to take this into consideration and start prosecuting the responsible for so much pollution. It does not seem that much is done about that…”

  23. Writing Time

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