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The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey Jan 2009

The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning Via Ethnographic Practice, Rebecca Hovey

Rebecca Hovey

Ethnography and experiential learning share assumptions on the primacy of everyday lived experience for learning culture. This presentation offers perspectives on ethnography as pedagogy for cultural learning through demonstration of ethnographic inquiry, discussion of pre-departure preparation for field work, and faculty reflections on students’ experiential learning.


Institutional And International Community Development: World Learning/Sit Case Study, Rebecca Hovey Jan 2009

Institutional And International Community Development: World Learning/Sit Case Study, Rebecca Hovey

Rebecca Hovey

In this workshop we posed the question: How to engage with/build partnerships or solidarity with communities in Global Service-Learning? This case study describes SIT Study Abroad programs as a form of community-based education: integrating community members as mentors, educators and part of the local “faculty”. This has profound implications in terms of academic content, knowledge generation, who benefits from the projects and accumulated knowledge gained from field service, and the global citizen responsibilities of the home university in terms of fair intellectual property and labor.