1. Tawasol Student
Exchange
2012
Intercultural Student Service Learning Exchange
Programme in Galway
Carl Bradshaw, Ingvild Willwerth, Jacqui Stewart, Katie Fallon, Lougayne Fattal,
Amira El Halabi, Samer Sfeir, Izabela Yankova, Farah Najem, Reem El-Dana, Abd Alrahman
Aladlan
2. Introduction
Service Learning and Civic Engagement:
Service learning and civic engagement - the aim of this exchange
Service learning and volunteering
Community placement
Intercultural Interaction and Communication:
All coming together from different places
Workshops
Why is it important?
Personal and Academic Experience and Development:
Hands-on-learning
Three basic lessons - key concepts
Growth
Future:
General
Mommy Made
Al al-Bayt University
MDF Project
3. Service Learning and Civic
Engagement
The aim of this exchange visit was
to give students from all
participating universities the
opportunity to:
1. Apply knowledge in the
community;
2. Develop employability;
3. Reflect on understanding of
service learning;
4. Experience community
engagement;
5. Focus on the solving of „real‟
problems;
6. Work in teams and develop
leadership skills;
7.The promotion of cross-cultural
learning and understanding;
8. Enhance communication skills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=mdtS66OU96E&feature=plc
5. Service Learning and Civic
Engagement Service learning is part of academic experience, linked to our
academic discipline, then the community becomes a teaching tool
program, it‟s about turning difficulties into opportunities,
disadvantages into advantages
You learn about self-growth, and when you learn that you can
learn new methods and techniques, if we continue to grow service
learning and civic engagement in our regions but first we must
work in growing ourselves, making Jordan a better place to live in.
We must have high expectations in order to achieve our goals, it‟s
about being a part of this community not an object, and you have
to learn how to surf. When you learn about service learning and
civic engagement we contribute to develop the community, it
doesn‟t matter whether you‟re young or old, male or female, able
bodies or disabled, there is something you can do!
I learned from Galway workshop the ability to structure my time,
working and networking with others in creating a sense of
accomplishment. Being a valued member of the community and
after that we can make a new place. Its about being a part not an
object
10. Service Learning and Volunteering
The term “service learning” has been used
to characterize a wide array of experiential
education endeavors, from volunteer and
community service projects to field studies
and internship programs.
11. Service Learning and Volunteering
Service-Learning is a teaching and learning
strategy that integrates meaningful community
service with instruction and reflection to enrich
the learning experience, teach civic responsibility,
and strengthen communities.
Through service-learning, young people—from
kindergarteners to college students—use what
they learn in the classroom to solve real-life
problems.They not only learn the practical
applications of their studies, they become actively
contributing citizens and community members
through the service they perform.
12. Differences Between Service Learning
and Volunteering
Service Learning is: Volunteering is:
Funded
Formal
Directed by
professor/tutor
Required
About problem solving
Academic
Free
Informal
More personally directed
Optional
Providing a service
Personal
23. Intercultural interaction and
communication
Why is it important?
Eliminating stereotypes and discrimination
between people.
Strengthening the principles of
respect, tolerance and equality.
Changing our whole perspective of life.
24. Intercultural interaction and
communication
Knowledge and awareness = acceptance
and understanding
Celebrate difference – makes the world
interesting
Must have tolerance, respect and acceptance of
these differences
Towards a peaceful future in a world of
celebrated multicultural diversity
25. Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
Human ecology (study of human beings in
their natural environment).
Use of official statistics:
To address the health inequalities
Suicide rate in male travellers 6.6 higher than
general population
The All Ireland Traveller Health Study (2010)
26. Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
Practical activities
Research Method
Insight to
problems/issues faced
Use of literacy skills
27. Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
Three basic lessons:
Combine what needs to be done in the
community with your own goals
Applicate solutions from academic
teachings combined with voices from the
people
Recognize the western hegemony over
the ideological discourse
28. Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
Key concepts to achieve this
(Personal perspective)
◦ Understand similarities
◦ Personal relationships
◦ Patience/Understanding limits
29. Security – structural violence
Questioning norms
Conflicting rights
Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
30. Personal and Academic Experience
and Development
Personal Goals: Academic Goals:
Increase tolerance
Constructive mechanism
Increased diversity
International civic
engagement
37. Special Thanks to:
TEMPUS..
Tawasol Project..
Al al-Bayt University..
The Hashemite University..
Everyone helped me to be here..
38. The next step in AABU..
Service Learning can be applied in our university in two forms
Officially Unofficially
39. Officially (More compulsory
Courses)
Currently we have one course for
the service learning (Graduation
Project)
Soon there must be compulsory
courses for all students
There will also be final projects for
such courses to serve the NGOs
and other community parties
41. IVP (Cont.)
The idea of the IVP is a
Lab/Room in which workshops
and training will be conducted
for the students to maintain the
sustainability of the
volunteering process.
42. IVP (cont.)
The roles and duties for the participants
are:
1. Each participant must teach another
person/group what he has learnt
2. Participant must serve the NGOs
47. Balamand students will be taking the
initiative to create new community based
projects departing from the knowledge
acquired in their class rooms,
Motivated by Service Learning courses that
we were enrolled in,
Depending on the help of our professors.
Future of Service Learning at UOB
49. The Mediterranean
Development Forum
This forum was proposed by 2 colleagues at
university
A group of 30 students from different majors was
formed to organize and work on the
development of the Forum
The major aim of this Forum is enhancing
development in our region through identifying
problems that we are facing and shed a light on
the opportunities that we can benefit from in our
region.
Interaction between students from different
countries and cultures is another aim that we are
willing to achieve throughout our Forum.
50. The Mediterranean Development
Forum
As a whole team, we believe that our
forum will have a positive effect on our
country as a whole, on our university in
particular and on us as individuals.
As a part of the scientific committee, I
had the chance to suggest allocating
sessions and projects related to Service
Learning, Volunteering and Community
Service.
These sessions can be similar to what
we did in Galway but on a smaller scale.
51. Will this project create opportunities to
integrate & relate theory to practice?
Will this project enhance partnerships
between the university and the wider
community?
Will this project increase the civic,
academic, personal & professional
capacity of students through
experiential learning?
Collaborate with the university administration to find way to integrate social projects of NGOs as projects of main courses in students curriculum (Pat Pyrane IT projects). Since our local NGOs have specific IT and software development needs and the university courses require also projects we can learn from this experience and do a similar program customized to our respective universitieshttp://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/youth/article3387569.eceWhen they were in the second year college, they thought of building a small dragon fly with inbuilt spying mechanisms, by the time they moved to final year of their mechanical engineering degree Four students G. YashwantShaury, NarayanLal, Y. Vishwateja and G. Madhusudhan of VidyaJyothiFunction on uneven surfaces, climb up the stairs. “In countries abroad there are separate ramps for the physically disabled to manoeuvre their wheel chair but there is no such facility in our country.”Vishwatejastated“We started thinking how our project can make a difference in society.”We can collaborate with the university to create a common ground between NGOs projects requirements and Students courses projects: for example, Arc en Ciel
We have the will as Balamand Students, and our professors are providing us with the way