Intercultural Understanding
EIESL chose theme of “Intercultural Understanding” to capture the key emerging questions, comments, and concerns arising from faculty and student dialogue sessions that focused on the considerations for effective interactions with people from different cultures. “Students need to not only know the broad strokes of the culture”… [more]
Training and Education
EIESL chose theme of “Training & Education” to capture the key emerging questions, comments, and concerns arising from faculty and student dialogue sessions that focused on the processes of teaching, learning, and skills-training. “Who is this ‘other’? In every country different power relationships exist… [more]
Sustainability
EIESL chose the theme of “Sustainability” to capture the key emerging questions, comments, and concerns arising from faculty and student dialogue sessions that focused on the considerations related to long-lasting impacts, actions and relationships. “Our planning needs to be really good to make sure that… [more]
Balance and Reciprocity
EIESL chose the theme of “Balance and Reciprocity” to capture the key emerging questions, comments, and concerns arising from faculty and student dialogue sessions that focused on building humility, trust, accountability and an overall investment into building and maintaining relationships and partnerships… [more]
Motivations
EIESL chose the theme of “Motivations” to capture the key emerging questions, comments, and concerns arising from faculty and student dialogue sessions that focused on conflicting motivations for service in vulnerable communities abroad which range from a positive desire to promote equity and to work with and for communities… [more]
Witnessing and Observing
The theme “Witnessing and Observing” was added to our ethical learning process after interviews with community partners identified concerns regarding considerations for effective interactions with the local community…[more]
