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Direct linkKemp, Theresa D. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2016
In 2009, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's (UWEC) women's studies program offered its first iteration of the faculty-led international immersion course Women's Lives and Experiences in Nicaragua. This program was created and initially led by Dr. Rose-Marie Avin, a faculty member in the economics department and an affiliate member of both…
Descriptors: Feminism, Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, International Programs
Reynolds, Nora Pillard – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships not only on student learning, which has received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Global Approach, Case Studies
Download full textMaita, Gianna – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2015
Civic engagement of young people has evolved in Nicaragua as its political environment has changed. There is a marked difference between youth involvement in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution from 1979 through the early 1980s, when it was a cultural norm for young people to serve in solidarity with the poor, and today, when universities…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, Citizen Participation
Reynolds, Nora Pillard – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2014
This study explored the perspectives of community organization representatives and community residents about a partnership between a College of Engineering and a rural municipality in Nicaragua. The intended community outcomes described by university participants during interviews corresponded with tangible project outcomes, such as access to…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Community Attitudes, Partnerships in Education
Barndt, Deborah, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2011
This compelling collection of inspiring case studies from community arts projects in five countries will inform and inspire students, artists, and activists. "VIVA!" is the product of a five-year transnational research project that integrates place, politics, passion, and praxis. Framed by postcolonial theories of decolonization, the…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Art Education, Community Development, Social Change
Kiely, Richard – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2004
This article reports findings from a longitudinal case study investigating how students experience perspective transformation from their participation in international service-learning program with an explicit social justice orientation. Findings indicate that each student experienced profound changes in their world-view in at least one of six…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Transformative Learning, Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies
