Stylus Publishing (VA) Community-Based Global Learning: The Theory and Practice of Ethical Engagement at Home and Abroad

Study abroad participation among U.S. students has more than tripled during the past two decades. Simultaneously, institutions of higher education have increased their rhetorical attention to the development of global citizenship, and in many cases, have also begun offering global service-learning programing. While there is a recent, growing literature on theoretical models, research and critiques, there is no single book that combines rigorous attention to global service-learning theory with practical resources for implementation. This book fills that gap. Building a Better World presents a comprehensive understanding of global service-learning by looking at various fields including community: community development, student development theory, service-learning, study abroad, intercultural education, and conceptualisations of global partnerships. The book takes an explicitly pragmatic stance, clearly demonstrating applications, frameworks, models, and resources for practice informed by theory. Featuring brief, summative essays that distill many of the challenges involved with global service-learning, Building a Better World asks thought-provoking questions to students in order to move forward in the field. Review Community-Based Global Learning combines rich theoretical analyses and conceptual material with scenarios, practical examples, and toolboxes. Throughout the book, the authors advance the scholarship in critical development studies and global citizenship education in a profound, yet accessible, way. The result is a highly effective facilitator's guide for developing students' global competency skills, critical reflection, cutting-edge learning experiences, and life-long reflection; while simultaneously challenging us to reimagine the role and impact of institutions of higher education.--Rebecca Tiessen, Professor & University Chair in Teaching in the School of International Development and Global Studies "University of Ottawa, Canada; author of Learning & Volunteer Abroad for Development, 2018, Routledge" (5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM)Community-Based Global Learning raises the bar on what it means to offer quality and responsible off-campus, community and partnership-based programming in higher education. The authors achieve an impressive balance between a review of foundational theoretical work and the sharing of instructive cases and numerous examples of approaches and resources that can readily be adapted and applied across diverse community and organizational settings.--John G. Tansey, Executive Director "The Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire" (5/18/2018 12:00:00 AM)"The authors, all of whom have extensive experience in administering and running study-abroad and community engagement programs, lay out, piece by careful piece, how an ethical basis of engagement between two markedly different populations can be made fruitful and positive for both. The value of this volume is the care it takes in explicating the theory, the larger ethical universe, in which we all operate, and applying it to the dynamics of the service-learning encounter. It does not shy away from the problematic moments."--Rafia Zakaria "." (4/23/2018 12:00:00 AM)A thoughtful, well-informed analysis of the promises and pitfalls of engaging in ethically-sound community-based global learning. With examples and insights, they examine the core topics of good engaged pedagogy: learning objectives like global citizenship, reflection, intercultural communication, partnerships, and practical issues of implementing community-based global learning courses. Simultaneously applied, theoretical, moralistic, critical, and visionary, this book is a must read for all practitioners of not only community-based global learning but also all practitioners of community-based experiential learning.--Robert G. Bringle, Ph.D., Phil.D., Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Philanthr