Short-Term International Service-Learning: Faculty Perceptions of and Pedagogical Strategies for the Design and Implementation of Successful Learning Experiences

Author

Thomas Jacob Van Cleave, Portland State UniversityFollow

Sponsor

Portland State University. Department of Educational Leadership and Policy

First Advisor

Christine Cress

Date of Publication

Summer 8-19-2013

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership: Postsecondary Education

Department

Educational Leadership and Policy

Language

English

Subjects

Foreign study -- Research, Service learning -- Research, World citizenship -- Study and teaching (Higher), Education and globalization -- Study and teaching (Higher)

DOI

10.15760/etd.1055

Physical Description

1 online resource (x, 338 pages)

Abstract

Faculty-led short-term international service-learning (STISL) experiences are thought to have great potential in developing students' global citizenship through combining study abroad and community service pedagogies. However, thorough investigation of the pedagogical strategies employed in STISL courses to achieve such outcomes has yet to be conducted. This qualitative narrative inquiry of STISL faculty at 7 different institutions across multiple academic disciplines and country service sites sought to fill that void. Data reveal a new conceptualization of STISL teaching, learning, and service success that involves culturally contextualized solidarity, global civic engagement, and global competence, which culminate into students' global agency. Emerging from the data, the Van Cleave Pedagogical Design framework for Global Agency illuminates the interactions of five interdependent learning dimensions: academic, professional, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and intercultural. Course, program, and policy implications are explicated across pre-departure, host-country, and re-entry experiences.

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Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10012

Recommended Citation

Van Cleave, Thomas Jacob, "Short-Term International Service-Learning: Faculty Perceptions of and Pedagogical Strategies for the Design and Implementation of Successful Learning Experiences" (2013). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1055.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.1055