International service learning: engaging host communities
International service learning (ISL) programs are growing more popular with students looking to advance their skills and knowledge to become global citizens. While the benefits of these programs among students are well documented, little is known about the implications they have on host communities themselves. This volume explores the impact of ISL programs on members of host communities (e.g. host families and local partner NGOs) who are increasingly influenced by the presence of international…
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- Full title :International service learning : engaging host communities / edited by Marianne A. Larsen.
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International service learning (ISL) programs are growing more popular with students looking to advance their skills and knowledge to become global citizens. While the benefits of these programs among students are well documented, little is known about the implications they have on host communities themselves. This volume explores the impact of ISL programs on members of host communities (e.g. host families and local partner NGOs) who are increasingly influenced by the presence of international students in their lives. Drawing upon post-colonial, feminist and other critical and decolonizing theories, it examines the complicated power relations between North American ISL students and host communities in East and West Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. It stresses the importance of developing trusting relations between ISL students, faculty and individuals in the host communities to create mutually engaging learning experiences.
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- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 287 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781317554578, 1317554574, 1317554582, 9781317554585, 9781315732305, 1315732300, 9781317554561, 1317554566
- oclc:ocn932622723
- LC Classification:LC220.5
- Dewey Decimal:361.3/7
Table of Contents
International service learning: engaging host communities-introduction / Marianne A. Larsen -- Epistemological, methodological, and theoretical challenges of carrying out ISL research involving host communities: a conversation / Allyson Larkin, Marianne A. Larsen, Katie MacDonald, and Harry Smaller -- Saying it doesn't make it so: do we listen and act when the host community tells us what they want? / Nora Pillard Reynolds and Junior Cezar Gasparini -- Solidarity or neo-colonialism? The challenges of understanding the impact of ISL on Nicaraguan host communities / Michael O'Sullivan and Harry Smaller -- The economic circle: impacts of volunteerism and service learning on three rural communities in Costa Rica / Cynthia Toms Smedley -- Southern perspectives on ISL volunteers: reframing the neo-colonial encounter / Barbara Heron -- International service learning in a Tanzanian host community: post-colonial insights / Marianne A. Larsen -- In the right relationship: a case study of international service learning in eastern Africa / Jessica Arends -- Orient(aliz)ation: a case study of North American international education programs at the University of Ghana / Shelane Jorgenson -- Stru…
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