Learning from Experience: Strengthening International Community Service Learning
The Experiential Learning Workshop invites colleagues involved in courses, projects or activities incorporating experiential learning, service-learning or international community engagement to reflect critically on their initiatives together with peers and external critical friends.
The workshop aims to create space for constructive feedback, shared learning and critical reflection on how these initiatives can be further strengthened. Through six interactive case discussions, drawing on partnerships and communities in different contexts, participants will exchange perspectives and explore their initiatives through the lenses of student learning, reciprocity, ethical collaboration and mutually beneficial partnerships, intercultural engagement and institutional support.
External critical friends will bring fresh perspectives and constructive feedback to help challenge assumptions, reflect on challenges and good practices, and identify opportunities for further development. The discussions will also explore how experiential learning and international community service-learning (CSL) can be further strengthened and embedded within 91³Ô¹ÏÍø and the wider association, while making existing initiatives more visible to colleagues and institutional stakeholders.
Programme
- ​11:00–11:15 Welcome & IntroductionWorkshop objectives, introduction of participants and critical friends, service-learning framework and working method
- 11:15–12:45 Session 1
- 11:15–12:00 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 1 USOS Immersion Brazil – UNICAP & ISTT12:00–12:45 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 2 USOS immersion Suriname - AdeKUS & ISTT
- 12:45–13:30 Lunch
- 13:30–15:00 Session 2
- 13:30–14:15 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 3 Community-Based Monitoring programme Tanzania - IOB14:15–15:00 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 4 USOS Immerssion India – XISS & NLU
- 15:00–15:15 Coffee Break
- 15:15–16:45 Session 3
- 15:15–16:00 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 5 Student Internships, Faculty of Medicine 91³Ô¹ÏÍø16:00–16:45 Case 91³Ô¹ÏÍø 6 USOS Immerssion Morocco – UMP Oujda & 91³Ô¹ÏÍø
- 16:45–17:00 Closing Discussion & Wrap-upKey insights, cross-cutting themes, recommendations and next steps
Contact
This conference is co-organised with and made possible through Global Minds funding from VLIRUOS.