Integrating Community Engagement into Study Abroad
Part 1: Methods and Models
Nevin Brown, International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership
As a growing number of colleges and universities in the region embrace the goals of civic engagement and global understanding for their students, it becomes increasingly important to develop effective campus-based strategies for connecting community engagement with study abroad. Among such strategies are service-learning, community service, internships and community-based research. While the presenter will discuss all four strategies, he will focus in particular on how service-learning can integrate them into a powerful tool both for deeper student learning and effective service to the community. The presenter will discuss how campuses can get started in organizing themselves to pursue international and intercultural community engagement, including examples of institutions from other parts of the U.S. as well as overseas that can be models of such work.
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Integrating Community Engagement into Study Abroad
Part 2: Ensuring Academic Rigor
Faculty members: Hector Vila, Middlebury College; Rebecca Hovey, World Learning/School for International Training; Dan Baker, University of Vermont; Moderator, Amy McGlashan, Vermont Campus Compact
Ensuring academic rigor is always a component of high quality experimental education abroad. Panelists in this workshop will describe how a focus on learning outcomes is enhanced and maintained within the context of the experiential components of their international courses and study abroad experiences. Panelists will work with participants to articulate a set of practices and principles that practitioners can refer to when incorporating community engagement into study abroad and/or designing an international service-learning course or experience.
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