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Publication Date: 2013
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Dreaming in Green: Service Learning, Global Engagement and the Liberal Arts at a North American University
Cororaton, Claire; Handler, Richard
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, v6 n2 p72-93 Sum 2013
This article documents and analyses the uneasy, if not contradictory, relationship between service learning and liberal arts thinking in an undergraduate programme in Global Development Studies (GDS) at a North American University. As an undergraduate, Cororaton participated in a service-learning project to build a greenhouse in Mongolia; at the same time, the curriculum of her major (GDS, a programme directed by Handler) was developing a critique of such service projects, focusing on their lack of political self-consciousness. The authors contextualise the story within the university's ongoing attempts to enhance its global profile.
Descriptors: Service Learning, Liberal Arts, Global Education, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Teamwork, School Community Programs, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Rural Development, Recycling
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Identifiers - Location: Mongolia; Virginia
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