Global Service-Learning

Amizade empowers individuals and Amizade empowers individuals and communities through worldwide communities through worldwide

service and learning .service and learning .

EXPLORE.

SERVE.

UNDERSTAND.

Community-Based Learning

Community-Driven Service

Intercultural Immersion

Global Citizenship

Reflective Inquiry

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Academics

- Intro to Int. Development (B0livia)

- Intro to Native Comm. (Navajo N.)

- Hist. of Holocaust (Germ. / Pol.)

-- Peace and Reconcil. (N. Ireland)

-- Intro to Comm. Dev. (Tanzania)

-- Intro to Social Doc. (AL / GA)

- Intro to Global Studies (Ghana)

Academics

1. Content

2. Questions

Community-

Driven

Service

Project Selection, Implementation, Evaluation

Continuous Partnership

Community-Driven Service

- School / Orphanage Building

-- Tutoring

-- Learning

-- Youth Center Activities

-Historic Preservation

-Nonprofit Evaluation / Grant-writing

-Building Relationships & Communicating once home

"Before Amizade volunteers "Before Amizade volunteers came, we didn't even dare to came, we didn't even dare to dream to have all we do now. dream to have all we do now. Our lives changed so much. Our lives changed so much. All our lives are better All our lives are better thanks to you." thanks to you."

– Sister Leticia, director of – Sister Leticia, director of the Hogar de Ninos in Boliviathe Hogar de Ninos in Bolivia

Intercultural Immersion & ExchangeIntercultural Immersion & Exchange

Consideration of Global Citizenship

Global CitizenshipGlobal Citizenship

Concept: belief in equal human dignity, Concept: belief in equal human dignity, global community, respect for other global community, respect for other cultures, desire for peaceful coexistence cultures, desire for peaceful coexistence (Carter 2001) (Carter 2001)

Characteristics (Nussbaum 1997)Characteristics (Nussbaum 1997)– Recognition of common valueRecognition of common value– Critical distanceCritical distance– Narrative imagination Narrative imagination

From Concept to ApplicationFrom Concept to Application

Knowledge, Skills, Efficacy Knowledge, Skills, Efficacy – (values, commitment)(values, commitment)

Cognitive DevelopmentCognitive Development– Habit of mind Habit of mind

Habit of MindHabit of Mind

Critical DistanceCritical Distance

EmpathyEmpathy

Liberal Education: embracing a diversity of Liberal Education: embracing a diversity of ideas and recognizing multiple ways of ideas and recognizing multiple ways of knowingknowing

Student Development: singular Student Development: singular → dualistic → dualistic → relativistic → commitment in relativism → relativistic → commitment in relativism → continuously evolving knowledge→ continuously evolving knowledge

PersonalPersonal EconomicEconomic PoliticalPoliticalConserve Conserve ResourcesResources

Live SimplyLive Simply

Share Your Story Share Your Story with Friends, with Friends, FamilyFamily

Stay in Touch with Stay in Touch with Friends around the Friends around the WorldWorld

Raise AwarenessRaise Awareness

Buy Fair TradeBuy Fair Trade

Buy LocalBuy Local

Buy OrganicBuy Organic

Familiarize Familiarize Yourself with Yourself with Conscious Conscious Consumption Consumption Resources, e.g. Resources, e.g. www.ethicalconsumer.com

Educate Yourself Educate Yourself and Voteand Vote

Apply for Oxfam Apply for Oxfam America’s America’s CHANGES CHANGES ProgramProgram

Get Involved with Get Involved with the Student Global the Student Global AIDS Campaign, AIDS Campaign, Students Taking Students Taking Action Now - Action Now - Darfur Darfur

Global Citizenship Beyond the Course

Reflective Inquiry

In Bolivia, 40 street children now have beds due to the construction of an orphanage by Amizade

volunteers.

In Brazil, thousands of teenagers have gained skills through a vocational center built by Amizade volunteers.

Considering SustainabilityConsidering Sustainability

•Social Enterprise Model •Specific Sites•Start-up Costs in Past •Multiple Partners helps share costs •Community cooperation and support•Market Reality

How Amizade approaches How Amizade approaches AffordabilityAffordability

Less expensive than tuition plus traveling Less expensive than tuition plus traveling and living abroad and living abroad

Mission-driven for affordabilityMission-driven for affordability

Many students raise money for Many students raise money for international service international service

Scholarships availableScholarships available– WVU: Eberly College, Departments, OIP, ASKWVU: Eberly College, Departments, OIP, ASK– Pitt: Honors College, UCIS, Nationality RoomsPitt: Honors College, UCIS, Nationality Rooms– Amizade Amizade

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