Learning Service Presentation - RMS Dragons
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This presentation was given by @danielapapi and @maryannby at the Rocky Mountain Seminar for educators hosted by Where There Be Dragons. It is a look at flipping volunteer travel, voluntourism, and service learning into a new light with a "learning service" mindset. This presentation was broken up by a range of interactive activities which the 50+ teachers, study abroad administrators, and other educators participated in over a long-weekend in November 2014.
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Learning Service Presentation - RMS Dragons
- 1. Learning Service A new look at service learning Dragons Rocky Mountain Seminar Daniela Papi Maryann Bylander
- 2. 1) Background 2) Pitfalls 3) Tips for selection 4) Tips for planning
- 4. Schools don’t teach kids.
- 5. Neither do pens, books, or t-shirts.
- 6. We needed to invest in people to put those things to use
- 7. Started out “giving things” How did the NGO change? Now, “inves5ng 5me in people”
- 11. How has PEPY Tours changed? Started out doing “voluntourism” How did the tours change? Now, offering a “chance to learn” Could also just be two images – perhaps people building or pain6ng something (can just be s6ck figures like the story of stuff) and the second people si?ng and talking or learning?
- 12. it’s not how we can “save the world” in a week
- 13. It’s what we do the other 358 days of the year.
- 14. Vocabulary Volunteering Beneficiaries “villagers”
- 15. We shifted our vocabulary The “Village of Briarcliff Manor” Volunteering Beneficiaries “villagers”
- 16. We shifted our vocabulary Volunteering Beneficiaries “villagers” … yet no one has ever called me a “villager”…
- 17. Vocabulary Volunteering Service Learning
- 18. Vocabulary Volunteering Learning Service
- 19. We have to learn before we can help
- 20. sympathy /ˈsimpəTHē/ Noun: Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. empathy /ˈempəTHē/ Noun: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 21. sympathy /ˈsimpəTHē/ Noun: Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune. empathy /ˈempəTHē/ Noun: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 22. So… what could actually go wrong?
- 23. In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong!
- 24. List of things that possibly go wrong All of it Bad planning Poor implementation Lies and corruption An evil guy In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong!
- 25. List of things that possibly go wrong All of it Bad planning Poor implementation Lies and corruption An evil guy In this trip.. EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong!
- 28. Poor pre-planning ! ! ! !
- 29. No transparency
- 34. Little to no traveler education
- 35. Little to no traveler education
- 36. The WRONG people were let in
- 37. The WRONG people were let in
- 38. The WRONG people were let in
- 39. “Earlier this year, the British owner of the Cambodian Orphan Fund…was sent to prison in Cambodia for sexually abusing several minor boys in his care.” - “Should You or Shouldn’t You Volunteer in a Cambodian Orphanage?”, Expat Living, Monica Pitrelli, Oct 2011
- 40. Poverty Overload Failure Overload Savior Overload
- 41. An ILLICH break
- 42. Why?
- 43. Why? • Growth in demand • Hero marketing • Incorrect perceived model • Broken feedback loop & poor monitoring • Difficulty of distinction • The “aid worker” myth • Easy & fast solutions • Poor monitoring
- 44. Growth in Demand £¥$€
- 45. Growth in Demand £¥$€ CONSUMERS
- 46. Hero Marketing • Growth in demand • Hero marketing • Incorrect perceived model • Broken feedback loop
- 47. “We don’t send people over to the US to help with the emotional poverty we see there: with unhappy people, high divorce rates, broken family units, and dependence on material wealth - so why do you send people over who know nothing about our issues to try to ‘help’ us with our financial poverty? We would fail at helping you as you are failing at helping us.” - Ghanaian NGO Director
- 48. Incorrect Perceived Model The community or the project has a need The community or project puts out a request for volunteers Volunteers supply that skill and 9ill the need
- 49. Incorrect Perceived Model The community or the project has a need The community or project puts out a request for volunteers Volunteers supply that skill and 9ill the need A sending organization has increased demand for a speci9ic location or type of volunteer project The organization seeks out more placements to 9ill the volunteers’ demands The hosting organization agrees to take the volunteer, in exchange for payment or in hope of continued donations
- 50. “You know, [foreigners] always want to paint things. They want to paint buildings, so we have a building we let them paint. Usually we have to repaint the walls after the [foreigners] leave because they don’t do a very good job.” - Excerpt from Rethinking Short-Term Missions for Long-Term Impact by Mary Faulds
- 52. Don’t research
- 53. Don’t research Buy bad car Car breaks
- 54. Don’t research Buy bad car You can change your behavior in the future Car breaks
- 55. Don’t research Invest in the wrong things abroad
- 56. Don’t research Invest in the wrong things abroad SCHOOL Fails, adds to corruption, etc.
- 57. Don’t research Invest in the wrong things abroad You don’t usually know it! SCHOOL Fails, adds to corruption, etc.
- 58. Poor monitoring
- 60. Easy & Fast Solutions
- 61. The “Aid Worker” Myth ?
- 62. The “Aid Worker” Myth ?
- 66. (If you plant papayas, you can’t get mangoes.) ប្រសិនបើអ្នកដាំដើមល្ហុង នោះអ្នកមិនអាចទទួយបាន ផ្លែស្វា យទេ។
- 67. Tips How should a trip organizer prepare? How can a traveler decide?
- 68. How can a traveler decide? 1) How do they market? 2) Do they know the work? 3) Personal/Global development relevance? 4) Speak to OTHERS 5) Educate yourself
- 69. 1 # How are they “marketing” and speaking about their work?
- 70. “The statement that this sort of media makes is “We have a group of people who are utterly helpless, and only you can save them.”… this person is helpless – this person needs your money – this person is incapable of making a better life for him/herself. In going down the path of the ‘savior’, we’ll inevitably be biased not towards policy that works, but towards policy that makes us feel good about ourselves.” - What is poverty porn and why does it matter for development? Matt Collin
- 71. 1 # WELLS DO NOT PROVIDE CLEAN WATER.
- 72. 1 # Fostering moral imperialism
- 73. 1 # Creates an offsetting culture
- 74. 1 # The all-inclusive, anywhere-anytime volunteer buffet 2 #
- 75. 3 #
- 76. 4 # Someone in that country
- 77. 4 # Someone in that field
- 78. 4 # Someone in that field
- 79. 5 # Educate yourself!
- 80. 5 # Educate yourself!
- 81. Child’s rights violations 5 #
- 82. # Orphanage tourism 5
- 83. 5 #
- 84. “There were about 25 kids inside the ‘orphanage’. Every time a tourist boat pulled up and people went in to deliver their bounty, the children would stop what they were doing and shout a greeting or a thank you. Doing that every five minutes throughout the day is surely going to impact on your education. It was obvious that the children were being used for profit. Yet boat after boat of people were pulling up to get their holiday feel good points by gawking at children trapped in a floating cage, chorusing multilingual greetings like polished professionals.” - “Orphanage Tourism: Cute Kids, Cashed Up Tourists, Poor Outcomes”, Devpolicy Blog, Development Policy Center
- 85. Ask yourself: Would this be okay if this was happening in my community?
- 86. Other RESOURCES to consider
- 87. Global Ci9zenship -‐ Humility -‐ Inter-‐connectedness -‐ Compassion -‐ Gra5tude Awareness of Self -‐ Awareness -‐ Curiosity -‐ Authen5city Leadership & Skill Building -‐ Responsibility -‐ Ownership -‐ Courage -‐ Self-‐reflec5on
- 90. Child Safe
- 92. Learning Service Charter/Guidelines/Videos www.learningservice.info
- 93. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org
- 94. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org
- 95. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org
- 96. Tips How should a trip organizer prepare? How can a traveler decide?
- 97. How should a trip organizer prepare? 1) Counter Dunning-Kruger 2) HAVE contacts, USE them, and LISTEN to them 3) Know the needs 4) Don’t plant papayas 5) Don’t forget about the rest!
- 98. 1 # Counter Dunning-Kruger
- 99. #2 3 # Have, use, and LISTEN
- 100. # $ 1 # 3 Earn the right to leave your money in the country
- 101. 4 # Don’t plant papayas! (If you want mangos)
- 102. Giving things away can cause problems too… It’s COMPLICATED 4 #
- 103. Development Syndrome 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 Call me Bono -‐ aid is great! Why am I doing this again? White Man's Burden, Easterly, and all that. I'm with Moyo -‐ DEAD AID! Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday # 4
- 104. It isn’t changing your mind
- 105. It’s forming new opinions based on new information
- 106. 4 #
- 107. 5 # Don’t forget the rest of the trip (and the process!)
- 108. money $ You vote with Remember: your money RESEARCH: Giving your
- 109. Avoid the long-neck-women phenomenon.
- 110. What are you married to? The exact initiative (a fundraiser, a volunteer trip, etc) The experience for the student The issue or NGO partner
- 111. Daniela Papi d@pepytours.com pepycambodia.org pepytours.com learningservie.info lessonsilearned.org
- 112. • Throughout the Journey: Adopting a Learning Mindset • Before departure: Thorough Research • While Abroad: Humble, Mindful, and Self-Reflective Action • Back at home: A life-long approach
- 114. Maryann Bylander @maryannby Daniela Papi @danielapapi