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Ethical International Partnerships involving Children & Residential Care
The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative has played a key role aligning with the global child rights and wellbeing community to raise awareness about the harms of orphanage tourism. With the pending resumption of international travel and volunteering, ReThink Orphanages is partnering with a range of organizations to continue to move individuals and organizations away from harmful forms of partnership and toward healthy engagement to support holistic community development.
Recording: Nurturing and Norming Inclusive Assessment Practices: A Democratically-Engaged Approach
In this session, we explore these questions together while also lifting up stories of counter-normative, transformative, and radically inclusive assessment work. This webinar highlights some stories of assessment done differently, engaged in values, and with the purpose of inclusion and transformation in mind. We explore together the concept of democratically-engaged assessment, which is an orientation to and framework for assessment that is explicitly grounded in, informed by, and in dialogue with the (contested) values and commitments of democratic civic engagement. Note that the team presenting represented the work of a larger team and the voice and input of community organizers, scholar-practitioners, thinkers, and citizens who have shared with us their first-hand experiences of what it means to reclaim one’s narrative and voice through democratically-engaged assessment practices.
Recording: Ethics, Equity, and Online Global Learning: Fair Trade Learning, Virtually
On March 22, 2021, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative hosted Ethics, Equity, and Online Global Learning: Fair Trade Learning, Virtually. When global education became virtual global education, program decisions impacted communities around the world. Particularly among organizations that have built their program models from community-driven and community-based principles, the move to virtual presented significant questions regarding whether to move forward, and how. Presenters from Amizade, Child Family Health International, and Omprakash shared how they have grappled through these decisions, what they have learned, and how their virtual models align with the ethical practices of Fair Trade Learning. Hear from:
Brandon Blache-Cohen , Executive Director, Amizade
Jessica Evert , MD, Executive Director, Child Family Health International
Willy Oppenheim , Founder and Co-Director, Omprakash

Recording: Remixing Revolution with Philly's South Asian American Digital Archive: Irish, South Asians - and Anti-British-Imperialism - From Philadelphia
Reiterating the alliances between South Asian Americans and Irish Americans in early 1900s Philadelphia shows us the power of re-learning an accurate history. On Tuesday, March 16th, 2021, Remixing Revolution with Philly's South Asian American Digital Archive highlighted how the lessons from this history could be implemented within the classroom.
Keynote Recording: A Civics of Interdependence
At the 2021 Weber State University Engaged Faculty Retreat, Eric Hartman presented the keynote address, "Civics Beyond Dichotomies: In and of Campus & Community Local and Global Interdependence." The description is available immediately below, along with the recording and slides.
Ethics, Equity, and Online Global Learning: Fair Trade Learning, Virtually
When global education became virtual global education, program decisions impacted communities around the world. Particularly among organizations that have built their program models from community-driven and community-based principles, the move to virtual presented significant questions regarding whether to move forward, and how. Presenters from Amizade, Child Family Health International, and Omprakash will share how they have grappled through these decisions, what they have learned, and how their virtual models align with the ethical practices of Fair Trade Learning.
Chat about Using and Co-creating the Toolkit: Collaborative Coffee Break
Do you have Burning Questions about the Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Action Toolkit? Come to the Collaborative Coffee Hour on Monday, March 1st from 10:00-10:30 am EST to ask any of your Toolkit related questions (hosted by Samantha Brandauer and Eric Hartman).
Listening to Country: weaving First Peoples knowledge and perspectives into curriculum in an Australian Context
This panel discussion features Teaching Elders and First Peoples Reference Committee from the Weaving First Peoples Knowledge and Perspectives within Curriculum Project . Comprised of Traditional Owners, and Custodians, Elders, present and emerging, the panel will also share insights and philosophies of Australia’s First People. This is a chance to value the work involved in creating engagement with and between communities, understand the emotional labour of engaging in this space, and the importance of working with and supporting each other.
For Us and the World We Inhabit: A Civics of Interdependence
Community-based Global Learning Collaborative members were invited to register here by Friday, February 5th, to take part in our first scholar-practitioner conversation this year. Registration has now closed. The presentation and conversation will take place on Friday, February 12, from 1 - 2:15 pm.
Building Health Justice Across the Curriculum: Educators Sought for Paid Opportunity to Co-Create Teaching Tools
Haverford College seeks pairs of middle and high school educators for a paid project designed to improve understanding of the relationships among structural determinants of inequity, health justice, and health outcomes.
Recording and Resources: Cultural Humility and Historical Understanding – Understanding What is Now Pennsylvania through Indigenous Experience
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, Adam DePaul, a Tribal Council Member of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, presented Cultural Humility and Historical Understanding – Understanding What is Now Pennsylvania through Indigenous Experience. This event was part of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship's 20th Anniversary Series.
Recording and Resources: Global-Local Curricular Connections and Experiential Education Webinar
On Friday, October 16, 2020, members of the Global Engagement in the Liberal Arts Conference Community, along with the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, joined together for this important and current conversation. This event was part of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship’s 20th anniversary series.
Upcoming Event: Cultural Humility and Historical Understanding - Understanding What is Now Pennsylvania through Indigenous Experience
The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative, the Pennsylvania Council for International Education, and the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development are cooperating to support a series of fall events designed to deepen understanding of local inclusivity and its relationship with global processes and understanding. Join us for these free, discursive webinars.
Recording and Resources: The State of the State and International Education
On Thursday, October 15th, 2020, Lisa Donatelli, Chief of Staff at the Arcadia University College of Global Studies, and Jeff Whitehead, Director of the University of Pittsburgh Study Abroad Office, presented The State of the State and International Education.
Recording and Resources: What NOT to Restart, and Opportunities Moving Forward: Global Engagement Post-COVID
On Friday, September 25, 2020, Jackline Oluoch Aridi, Martin Punaks, and Dr. Balu Balasubramaniam presented What NOT to Restart, and Opportunities Moving Forward: Global Engagement Post-COVID. This event was part of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship's 20th anniversary series.
Recording, Slides, Resources: Navigating Pennsylvania K-12 Resources and Materials for Global Competence
On Tuesday, September 23, 2020, PACIE educators Deanna Baird and Marcia Thomas presented Navigating Pennsylvania K-12 Resources and Materials for Global Competence.
Recording, Slides, Resources: Culturally Responsive Education Abroad: Addressing Explicit and Implicit Biases
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Professor Lucia Gbaya Kanga, Assistant Professor of English and Study Abroad Coordinator at Community College of Philadelphia, presented Culturally Responsive Education Abroad: Addressing Explicit and Implicit Biases.