In order to grade this work, I have to set a series of short writing assignments that oblige students to reflect on their service-learning in ways that draw-out the take-home lessons about globalization. It is these writing assignments that are graded, and it is the 7 prompts for these assignments that I have here adapted to share with anyone else using Introducing Globalization in their teaching.
They are designed to be given over the course of the whole term, semester or quarter in the order they are presented here below. Use this material to both reflect on what the lessons of your service learning will be, and write a word summary of your reflections. Assignment 2 In what ways does your community service organization work to create or protect forms of citizenship and human rights for marginalized and neglected communities?
To help spur your reflections on this question, re-read the quotation from The Grapes of Wrath on page of Introducing Globalization. Use this and the discussion of grassroots legal struggles in Chapter 6, Section 6. Assignment 3 What discourses of Globalization have you encountered while performing your service-learning? If you still find no evidence of Globalization discourse at all, can you explain its absence in relation to how the work of the organization deliberately questions or otherwise undermines TINA-tout myths of the sort examined in Chapter 2 of Introducing Globalization.
After reviewing pages of Introducing Globalization, write a word answer to the assignment question. Assignment 4 How does your organization address challenges related to globalization in ways that are shaped by market-led reforms?
In your answer, reflect on the ways in which the NGO or public agency you are working with has involved you in providing services that might have been provided in other times or in other places by paid government employees instead of using volunteers.
To help with this, Section 7. Sections 7. After reading these pages of Introducing Globalization, write a word answer to the assignment question. Assignment 5 In what ways does your community service organization strive to address problems of splintered urbanism? Write a word answer that explores how the work of the organization addresses the challenges of urban enclaving discussed in Section 8.
Use the example of the glossary in Introducing Globalization to write an in-house guide for this specialized language for another student who may come into the position you occupy in a future year. For example, if it is an NGO that works to help immigrants map the different sending countries from where these immigrants have travelled. Or if it's a foodbank, map where the food it stocks has been made. Assignment 7 How did the overall experience of service-learning change your view of global responsibility and community response-ability?
This question allows you a little more flexibility to write about your personal thoughts about service-learning, your organization, and globalization. Feel free to be creative! This response should be words long and should include a list of cited references. Key questions for evaluating global health service-learning opportunities Students interested in Global Health, Public Health or in a future health career in underserved communities tend to be especially excited about service-learning opportunities.
You may be just such a student yourself. And whether you are inspired by global health leaders such as Paul Farmer, or excited by student-led initiatives such as GlobeMed, you may now be looking for an overseas health service volunteering opportunity.
If so, it is important to approach your search for such an experience in a way that it is mindful of the critical lessons of leaders like Farmer, and thus sensitive to the sorts of strategies adopted by groups like GlobeMed.
This is precisely the reason why Partners in Health the NGO that he helped co-found places such a big emphasis on partnering with local communities in Haiti, Peru, and Rwanda. He is always drawing our attention back to how global processes we are connected to through our everyday lives in rich countries — global banking, global food systems, global tourism and so on — already implicate us in dynamics that dispossess poor people and make them vulnerable to illness.
This is not a guilt trip but rather a transnationalizing trip in disease diagnosis. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich, and critical panorama of these multifaceted developments from a geographical perspective. This Handbook explores the myriad of ways in which differing cross-border flows - of people, goods, services, capital, information, pollution and cultures - have re shaped concrete places across the globe and how these places, in turn, shape those flows.
With original contributions from leading scholars from across the globe, the Handbook positions globalization in a broader historical perspective, presenting a variety of geographical examples so that readers can better understand these processes. Regional studies and economic and human geography scholars will find this an invaluable resource for exploring the key topics of the geographies of globalization. Lecturers and advanced students will also find the detailed case studies useful to help explain the fundamental concepts outlined in the book.
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In terms of context the big global change that cannot be ignored in journalism globally is that the sorts of national news industry that dominated the twentieth century are simply dying in the new millennium. The loss of a strong subscription base not only destroys revenues from sales, but also from advertising because advertisers see diminishing value in printing advertisements for a dwindling print readership.
Meanwhile, so to speak, the pressure to attract advertisers by boasting of a large audience is transferring to the online environment. A limited number of news sites thus now compete with each other globally to nurture a new generation of online web-readers globally. However, The Economist concluded that the need of online news sites to cultivate a global following remained powerful and, as such, also look set to further de-nationalize the content and style of their news journalism too.
The exercise described here represents just one way of working towards developing such skills. Not least of all, the hope is that it will help you better navigate the middle ground between the diverging perspectives on global education outlined in Figure In brief, it invites you to compare news for global entrepreneurship with news that can inform more caring kinds of global citizenship, and by contrasting the coverage offered by these divergent perspectives you will be able to develop more effective forms of global response-ability.
Step 1: Decide on just one particular online news site that specializes in global business news. The Economist, The Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal are all good sources in this respect as they each have huge global audiences amongst business class readers, and many universities and colleges provide for free online access through their library systems. Step 2: Decide on a particular country or region of the world that interests you ideally one in which you or someone you are working with has matching language skills.
Step 3: Use one of the online indexes of online newspapers below to identify one mainstream news site from the country on which you have decided to focus.
It includes English and foreign-language sites from around the whole world, listed by country. Step 4: Now spend at least one hour every week comparing the coverage of your chosen country on the business news site and on the in-country news site.
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