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SERVICE LEARNING

• Course-based, credit-bearing educational experience that allows students to

SERVICE LEARNING

• Participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs

• Reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility

SERVICE LEARNING

• Form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development. Reflection and reciprocity are key concepts of SL

SERVICE LEARNING

• Create positive learning experiences for students and communities

• Widely used to educate students about either participatory or justice-oriented citizenship that is geared towards building a democratic society 

ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SL

PLACEMENT, APPLICATION, REFLECTION, RECIPROCITY

Placement

1. establishment of community connections

Application

 students linking their classroom activities to their experiences in the community

Reflection

critically thinking and analyzing emotional responses to service activities in the context of course content and the learning objectives of a particular course

BORTON’S DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

BORTON’S DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

1. Facts - WHAT (thinking)

2. Meaning - SO WHAT (feeling)

3. Action - NOW WHAT (doing)

Reciprocity

1. recognition, respect and valuing of the knowledge, perspective and resources that each partner contributes to the collaboration 

2. Venn Diagram

• Not charity (one-way help)

• Not coursework (one-way learning)

• It’s a mutual exchange where learning and benefits go both ways

SL PROJECTS

DIRECT, INDIRECT, ADVOCACY, RESEARCH

Direct

1. directly affects the persons, animals, or places we want to impact (e.g. volunteering or cleaning up a park)

Indirect

 in which you are not in the presence of the person of thing you are impacting (e.g. fundraising or collections)

Advocacy

speak up for or against an issue/solution

Research

1. finding out new information that informs or demands action (e..g scientific data collection or survey)

Absolute Poverty

a situation of being unable to meet the minimum levels of income, food, clothing, and other basic needs (< $3/day)

Subsistence economy

production is mainly for personal consumption and the standard of living yields little more than basic necessities of life

Development

process of improving the quality of all human lives and capabilities by raising people’s levels of living, self-esteem, and freedom

Developing countries

countries of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union that are persistently characterized by low levels of living and other development deficits

Traditional economy

an approach to economics that emphasizes utility, profit maximization, market efficiency, and determination of equilibrium

Political economy

1. an attempt to merge economic analysis with practical politics—to view economic activity in its political context

Development economics

1. the study of how economies are transformed from stagnation to growth and from low-income to high-income status, and overcome problems of absolute poverty

• Concerned with the economic, cultural, and political requirements for effecting rapid structural and institutional transformations of entire societies in a manner that will most efficiently bring the fruits of economic progress to the broadest segments of the population

Economies as social systems

1. the organizational and institutional structure of a society, including its values, attitudes, power structure, and traditions

Institutions

1. norms, rules of conduct, and generally accepted ways of doing things; humanly devised constraints that shape human interactions, including both informal and formal “rules of the game” of economic life in the widely used framework of Douglass North 

Traditional Economic Measures

• Achieving sustained rates of growth of income per capita to enable a nation to expand its output at a rate faster than the growth rate of its population

• Levels and rate sof growth of “real” per capita GNI are then used to measure the overall economic well-being of a population (how much of real goods and services is available to the average citizen for consumption and investment)

New Economic View of Development

Multidimensional process involving major changes in social structures, popular attitudes, and national institutions, as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality, and the eradication of poverty

Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach

• Functionings - what people do or can do with the commodities of given characteristics that they come to possess or control

• Five sources of disparity between real incomes and actual advantages

1. Personal heterogeneities

2. Environmental diversities

3. Variations in social climate

4. Distribution within the family

5. Differences in relational perspectives 

• person's own valuation of what kind of life would be worthwhile is not necessarily the same as what gives pleasure to that person

Subjective well-being

kind of psychological state of being a functioning that could be pursued alongside other functionings such as health and dignity

Capabilities

"the freedom that a person has in terms of the choice of functionings, given his personal features (conversion of characteristics into functionings) and his command over commodities

Human well-being

being well, in the basic sense of being healthy, well nourished, well clothed, literate, and long-lived, and more broadly, being able to take part in the life of the community, being mobile, and having freedom of choice in what one can become and can do

3 Core Values of Development

SUSTENANCE, SELF-ESTEEM, FREEDOM FROM SERVITUDE

Sustenance

1. the ability to meet basic needs

Self-Esteem

1. to be a person, feeling of worthiness that a society enjoys, promote human values such as respect, dignity, integrity, and self-discrimination

Freedom from Servitude

1. to be able to choos, a society has at its disposal a variety of alternatives from which to satisfy its wants and individuals enjoy real choices according to their preferences

3 Objectives of Development

1. Sustenance - increase the availability of and widen the distribution of basic life-sustaining goods 

2. Self-esteem - to raise levels of living

3. Freedom - to expand the range of economic and social choices 

Sustainable Development

requires an integrated approach that takes into consideration environmental concerns along with economic development

4th Objective: Good Governance

gov’t must carry out many core functions to enable societies to prosper, also includes businesses