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Global Citizenship And Community Engagement Through Global Service-Learning, Sook Young Ryu, Jung Won Jo

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

Service-Learning(S-L) may enable participants to have more concerns for others and try to engage in the community as they find their roles. Global Service-Learning (GS-L) provided university students with the opportunity to experience global problems that were unfamiliar to them now, but will help motivate them to explore possible solutions for future use. Global citizenship is based not on the knowledge from books but on experience and engagement in real world situations. This study explores the experiences and learning of students who conducted GS-L outreach for two weeks in Mongolia. A survey instrument, follow-up discussions and reflective journals were used …