Faculty workshop “Traveling With Excess Baggage” – Sept. 30

How can teachers/practitioners structure international or domestic service-learning projects to disrupt students’ class privilege and the stereotypes they hold about the people and communities in which they serve? This workshop, “Traveling With Excess Baggage: Shedding the Burdens of Privilege in International and Domestic Service-Learning Partnerships,” is designed to help faculty and staff:

• Assess the ways and levels in which class privilege is embedded in their institution’s practice and messages and their own approach to service and design of service-learning projects; and
• Generate strategies and approaches for equipping students prior to, during, and after the service engagement with the tools they need to analyze how the “excess baggage” of their class privilege prevents/limits ongoing transformative learning from taking place.

From the novice to the expert, the session is appropriate for anyone who has ever led or plans to lead Elon students in a service-learning experience and its objectives will apply to both domestic and international experiences.

Workshop facilitated by Prudence Layne (English).

Lunch and a workbook included if you RSVP to Barbara Guy by Sept. 16.