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Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development

Author : Rebecca Tiessen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351709402
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development written by Rebecca Tiessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning/volunteer abroad programmes provide opportunities for cross-cultural understanding, partnership-building, and cooperative development, but there are also significant structural challenges and inequality of opportunity issues that result from these partnerships between host organizations in the Global South and learning/volunteer abroad for development (LVA4D) participants from the Global North. Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development aims to unpack the complex benefits and disadvantages of learning/volunteer abroad programmes, using insights from the volunteers who travel abroad and the communities who host them. Based on empirical research within both volunteer and host communities, this book provides students and scholars with an alternative framework for a more careful and nuanced analysis of international volunteering programmes, highlighting ways to improve critical reflection, development outcomes, and intercultural competence. Supported by a website with additional learning resources, this book is an integral resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in going abroad, as well as for scholars or development professionals who are leading or researching such programmes.

Learning Service

Author : Claire Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912157068
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Learning Service written by Claire Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This year, over ten million people will go abroad, eager to find the perfect blend of adventure and altruism. Volunteer travel can help you find your place in the world--and find out what you're made of. So why do so many international volunteer programs fail to make an impact? Why do some do more harm than good? Learning Service offers a powerful new approach that invites volunteers to learn from host communities before trying to 'help' them. It's also a thoughtful critique of the sinister side of volunteer travel; a guide for turning good intentions into effective results; and essential advice on how to make the most of your experience."--Amazon.com.

How to Be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas

Author : Susan E. Gibson
Publisher : Barlow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781988025698
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas by : Susan E. Gibson

Download or read book How to Be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas written by Susan E. Gibson and published by Barlow Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to travel and make a positive impact on the world? This book is designed for you. How to Be an Amazing Volunteer Overseas will give you essential advice on how to decide what to do and where to go. It will help you to prepare for life in a new country. And most importantly, it will set you up to get the most out of your experience by learning from local leaders and contributing in a meaningful way. Full of practical tips and personal stories from the author's experience having worked and volunteered in 70 countries, How to Be an Amazing Volunteer has been endorsed by leaders in the international development community, and is a must-read as borders begin to open up post-pandemic, and as purpose-driven Gen-Zers around the world look to broaden their horizons while making a positive impact. Net proceeds from book sales will go to support education programs in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kenya and a First Nations community in Canada. "People who change the world are not necessarily 'special' people. They are everyday people who do not hesitate to respond to outside signals. Volunteering is about discovering what you can do and about getting to a point to take your own first steps. This book chronicles Susan's journey to discover herself - you'll enjoy being a co-traveller with her." -- Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006

The Romance of Crossing Borders

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785333593
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Crossing Borders written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.

The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy

Author : Heather A. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197544894
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy written by Heather A. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on international studies pedagogy helps us think purposefully about the worlds we teach to our students and it shows us why engaging in reflective practice about how and what we teach matters. The Handbook also provides strategies to engage students in a variety of ways to reflect on and engage with the complexities of the world in which we live.

Ours to Explore

Author : Pippa Biddle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124772
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Ours to Explore written by Pippa Biddle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 2014 essay that went viral, Pippa Biddle revealed the inequities and absurdities baked into voluntourism--the pairing of short-term, unskilled volunteer work with tourism. In the years since, Biddle has devoted herself to understanding the origins, intentions, and outcomes of a multibillion-dollar industry built on the premise of doing good, and she tracks that investigation in Ours to Explore. The flaws of voluntourism have included xenophobia, racism, paternalism, and a "West knows best" mentality. From exploitative orphanages that keep children in squalid conditions to attract donors to undertrained medical volunteers practicing their skills on patients in developing regions and to those looking for an inspiring selfie, Biddle reveals the hidden costs of the voluntourism complex. Along the way, readers meet inspiring activists and passionate community members, as well as thoughtful former voluntourists who still work to make a difference--just differently. Ours to Explore offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.

The New International Volunteer

Author : Elizabeth C. Medlin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649006
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The New International Volunteer written by Elizabeth C. Medlin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many volunteer workers have questioned their efforts and wondered if their actions truly made a difference. Questions about the state of the world, making a positive impact, health, safety, and creating authentic, lasting change are at the heart of international volunteering. This book is a comprehensive guide for those who are currently volunteering or seeking to volunteer internationally. It demonstrates that with the right tools and knowledge, it is possible to make authentic, lasting change. The book offers timely knowledge for volunteering in an era when the world has never been better off, but where current developments are not reaching everyone who still lives in poverty.

Globetrotting or Global Citizenship?

Author : Rebecca Tiessen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442616717
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? written by Rebecca Tiessen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel opportunities and towards striving for a deeper global citizenship. Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? is a valuable guide for students considering going abroad for experiential learning and a useful resource for those returning from such programs, as well as instructors and administrators facilitating pre-departure and return orientation sessions. Anyone taking part in international volunteering will find the reflections and analysis provided here an excellent starting point for understanding the potential impact of their time abroad.

Epistemic Freedom in Africa

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429960190
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Freedom in Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The American Freshman, National Norms for ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Picture Dictionary

Author : Caroline Young
Publisher : Usborne Books
ISBN 13 : 9781805075066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Picture Dictionary written by Caroline Young and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful illustrations and clear definitions combine to make this the ideal first dictionary for young children. Words are shown in context to help children understand how they are used, and colorful alphabet strips along the edges of the pages aid navigation. There's also user-friendly information on how to use a dictionary, simple explanations of word classes, and plenty of tips on grammar and spelling.

Transforming Study Abroad

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201160
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Study Abroad written by Neriko Musha Doerr and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

Improving Classroom Engagement and International Development Programs

Author : Patrick Blessinger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839094729
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Improving Classroom Engagement and International Development Programs written by Patrick Blessinger and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational pedagogy refers to student-centered learning that provides meaningful engagement to directly enhance critical thinking and creativity. This edited collection equips readers to understand and implement impactful creative teaching and learning methods designed to act as a catalyst to improve the learning experiences of students.

International Service Learning

Author : Marianne Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317554574
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book International Service Learning written by Marianne Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas

Author : Joseph Collins
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200251
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas written by Joseph Collins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to volunteering abroad--with profiles of more than 100 organizations How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas is the first comprehensive guide to international volunteerism for Americans of all ages--from college students to senior citizens. Joseph Collins, Stefano DeZerega, and Zahara Heckscher--all founders of respected volunteer organizations--share everything you need to know about volunteering in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. In-depth chapters provide information on: How to decide if international volunteering is right for you How to choose the right program Fundraising and financing What to do before and after you go abroad How to be an effective volunteer The Peace Corps Political and social contexts of Americans volunteering abroad Featuring worksheets, first-hand accounts from volunteers, and profiles of more than 100 volunteer organizations, this indispensable and unrivaled guide is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of living and volunteering abroad.

Community-Based Global Learning

Author : Eric Hartman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000977552
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Community-Based Global Learning written by Eric Hartman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International education, service-learning, and community-based global learning programs are robust with potential. They can positively impact communities, grow civil society networks, and have transformative effects for students who become more globally aware and more engaged in global civil society – at home and abroad. Yet such programs are also packed with peril. Clear evidence indicates that poor forms of such programming have negative impacts on vulnerable persons, including medical patients and children, while cementing stereotypes and reinforcing patterns of privilege and exclusion. These dangers can be mitigated, however, through collaborative planning, design, and evaluation that advances mutually beneficial community partnerships, critically reflective practice, thoughtful facilitation, and creative use of resources. Drawing on research and insights from several academic disciplines and community partner perspectives, along with the authors’ decades of applied, community-based development and education experience, they present a model of community-based global learning that clearly espouses an equitable balance between learning methodology and a community development philosophy.Emphasizing the key drivers of community-driven learning and service, cultural humility and exchange, seeking global citizenship, continuous and diverse forms of critically reflective practice, and ongoing attention to power and privilege, this book constitutes a guide to course or program design that takes into account the unpredictable and dynamic character of domestic and international community-based global learning experiences, the varying characteristics of destination communities, and a framework through which to integrate any discipline or collaborative project. Readers will appreciate the numerous toolboxes and reflective exercises to help them think through the creation of independent programming or courses that support targeted learning and community-driven development. The book ultimately moves beyond course and program design to explore how to integrate these objectives and values in the wider curriculum and throughout formal and informal community-based learning partnerships.

Volunteer Tourism

Author : Stephen Wearing
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851997650
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Volunteer Tourism written by Stephen Wearing and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volunteer tourism describes a field of tourism, in which travelers visit a destination and take part in projects in the local community. Projects are commonly nature-based, people-based or involve restoration of buildings and artifacts (e.g. restoration of a Buddhist temple inMongolia).