Transnational Solidarity Histories in International Service Learning: A Nicaraguan Case Study

MacDonald, Katie

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“…This was found in other research with hosts where they shared the desire to 109 teach others (MacDonald, 2022;Smaller & O'Sullivan, 2018). Centering hosts as meaningful participants in the pedagogical projects enacted in GSL programs, as teachers with tools and strategies in the learning journeys of the students they host is an important part of preparing students for their experience (MacDonald, 2016).…”

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Essential Participants: Centering the Experiences of Southern Hosts in Global Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

Vorstermans¹,

MacDonald²

2022

Frontiers

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In this paper we are concerned with the ways in which hosts are often excluded from scholarship and programming of global service learning. By global service learning (GSL), we mean a multiplicity of programs that occur facilitating service work for people across borders, generally with volunteers moving from the North to the South. We present findings from a research project conducted in 2014 with 37 host families. We circulated a survey to better understand host experiences of, expectations of, and hopes for GSL. Drawing on these survey results we provide some prompting questions for GSL participants (both students and program designers) to shift focus from student experience to relationship and mutuality. Using global service learning literature, critical disability theory and critical pedagogy through an intersectional lens, we center questions of uneven labor, accessibility, and structures of inequity. Three main themes emerged from our data: mutuality, gendered labor, and preparation. We present several infographic images capturing themes from the study to facilitate discussions with students who are preparing for GSL experiences and for those who are leading and designing programming. Our intention is to provide tools for educators to center the voices, desires, and motivations of Southern hosts in all of their GSL preparations.

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Essential Participants: Centering the Experiences of Southern Hosts in Global Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

Vorstermans¹,

MacDonald²

2022

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“…However, nomads who temporarily stay in an area can only achieve so much for the community, making them reserved and leading to their affiliative relations with residents. Studies of volunteer tourism have also suggested that tourists should imagine their imagined growth by which they can sustainably engage with the community and develop harmonious relationships with the residents (Sin, 2009;Mostafanezhad, 2013;MacDonald, 2022). In the age of mobility, we may have hetero-local identities by contributing and being involved in multiple regions in small ways.…”

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Affiliative nomads in Japan: potential sustainable tourism stakeholders in depopulated rural areas

Horiuchi,

Morishige

2024

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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In Japan, the overall population is declining. Depopulation is severe, resulting in various negative consequences, particularly in rural areas. Rural communities could benefit by collaborating with people from other places, mainly urban areas. Typical examples of visitors or tourists from urban areas in these cases are referred to as “kankei jinko.” The more fundamental issue, however, is that many rural residents have lost confidence in their ability to live in areas with declining and aging populations. It is important to note the potential for highly mobile people from urban areas to increase the civic pride of rural residents. This raises questions about who these nomadic people, or “affiliative nomads,” are and how they interact with residents. To answer these questions, we analyzed cases of affiliative nomads in previous studies. The nomadic people showed respect for the rural areas to the residents; as a result, they were perceived by the residents as being in a stage of growth. When the nomads and residents interact, they create common values such as nature conservation and economic and community revitalization. Thus, the nomads cultivate civic pride among the residents and could be regarded as affiliative nomads. Furthermore, some coordinators bridge residents and nomads to expand their relationships with other people. Affiliative nomads may be sustainable tourism stakeholders and contribute to solving the problems of depopulated areas in Japan and other developed or emerging countries.

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“…Another notable aspect is the local impact of university FW education. FW resulted in host residents taking pride in their lives [37,38] and social business creation [39]. Although not included in this analysis, the interaction with students from cities may have exerted a certain impact on the people in the areas where the students visited.…”

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Fieldwork Studies in Rural Areas: Growth of Students in an Urban University in Japan

Horiuchi

2022

ARJASS

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For rural revitalization, universities in Japan encourage students to nurture relationships with partner organizations in rural areas. Fieldwork studies are one of the prominent methods for rural revitalization. However, students in urban universities should less likely maintain such relationships in rural areas even if they undertake fieldwork studies. The present study illustrated how students and graduates had relationship with rural areas after the fieldwork studies. The author contacted with three professors in an urban university who implemented advanced fieldwork studies in five rural municipalities of Kinki region, Japan. The author asked the three professors about excellent graduates and students who had undertaken fieldwork studies, in total 16 individual. The author interviewed these students for their experiences and growth through the fieldwork studies. As a result, 11 of 16 interviewees lived and worked in urban areas. However, students from urban hometowns became interested in revitalizing rural areas through their jobs, whereas those from rural hometowns were motivated to return in the future. After fieldwork studies, students determined the strengths and weaknesses of rural areas compared with those of urban areas, which could contribute to future rural revitalization through their jobs. For rural revitalization in the future, collaboration between urban universities and rural areas are recommended.

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Transnational Solidarity Histories in International Service Learning: A Nicaraguan Case Study

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Essential Participants: Centering the Experiences of Southern Hosts in Global Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

Essential Participants: Centering the Experiences of Southern Hosts in Global Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice

Affiliative nomads in Japan: potential sustainable tourism stakeholders in depopulated rural areas

Fieldwork Studies in Rural Areas: Growth of Students in an Urban University in Japan

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