The document summarizes an intercultural student exchange program in Galway, Ireland that focused on service learning, civic engagement, and intercultural interaction. The program aimed to provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge through community service placements, develop skills like teamwork and leadership, and promote cross-cultural understanding. Students engaged in workshops and reflections on key concepts of service learning and civic engagement. Through their community placements at organizations like the Galway Traveller Movement, students gained hands-on experiences that supported their personal and academic growth. They explored how to combine community needs with academic goals and incorporate diverse perspectives. The document discusses hopes to expand service learning programs at participating universities, such as through a

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

4. Service Learning and Civic
Engagement

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

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qN2BrqsHik
&feature=plcp

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

13. Community Placements

14. Galway Traveller Movement

15. What Have I Learned?

16. What Have I Learned?
 Learning through Experience
 The Power of Knowledge
 The Rewards of Hard Work

17. Civic Engagement in Universities
 Meaningful Student Experience
 Holistic Education
 University Engaged with its
Surroundings

18. Intercultural interaction and
communication
Photos: Maria Sand et.

19. Intercultural interaction and
communication - Workshops

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

31. Future from Student Perspective

32. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brncTM9qeyg

34. Fundraising
Events
Online
donation
system (CS)
Grants
Nutrition
Healthy
meals
Quantities
Food safety
Graphic
design
Menu
Brochures
Posters
Packaging
Website
Finance
Pricing
Salaries
Bundles
Computer
science & eng
+ Marketing
Website
Social
media
Pilot CS & SL for Mommy
Made

35. Within CCECS in AUB
Service Learning Programme
CS & SL
program
Students projects
in courses
NGOs needed
projects

36. Abd Alrahman Aladlan
Al al-Bayt University

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

40. Unofficially: (The IVP)
IVP: Infinite Volunteering
Program

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

43. IVP in depth..
IVP
Formal
Informal
Virtual
There are three forms:

44. Formal:
Sessions and lectures..

45. Informal:
One-to-one training

46. Virtual:
Over the internet and Social
Networks

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

48. The Mediterranean Development Forum
Example

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?

52. “As long as there‟s a will, there‟s
way”

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