Service-Learning with Transnational Students in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study on the U.S.–México Border

2012 ◽  
pp. 107-128
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Transnational Students ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

The Assessment of Self-Determination in Spanish and American Adolescents: The Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
Leslie A. Shaw ◽  
Cristina Mumbardó-Adam
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Validity ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Item Functioning ◽  
Assessment Research ◽  
The U.S

Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the cross-cultural validity of the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report, a newly developed measure of self-determination grounded in Causal Agency Theory. The tool was translated to Spanish and administered to American and Spanish adolescents. The sample was structured to include adolescents with and without intellectual disability in both cultural contexts. More than 3,000 students in the U.S. and Spain aged 13 to 22 completed the assessment. Findings suggest that the same set of items can be used across cultural contexts and in youth with and without intellectual disability, although there are some specific differences in item functioning across students with and without intellectual disability in Spain that must be further researched. There were specific patterns of differences in latent self-determination means, with students with intellectual disability scoring lower in the U.S. and Spain. Implications for assessment research and practice in diverse cultural contexts are explored.

Infrastructure in the Jungle: Infrastructure and Ideology in the Refugee Camps in Calais and Along the U.S.–Mexico Border

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Erdener
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This article examines infrastructures as a tool for managing populations, specifically migrants and refugees, and more broadly, infrastructure as a communicative trope for social belonging and citizenship. Infrastructure emerges as a key site of ideological contestation. Refugees and their advocates argue that infrastructural breakdowns require greater investment of resources and social care. Opponents point to infrastructural breakdowns as evidence that refugees and migrants do not belong and are a drain on national resources. Through a comparative case study analysis of the refugee camp in Calais, France, and at the U.S.–Mexico border, this article argues that infrastructure and infrastructural breakdowns mediate and communicate claims to territory, political recognition, and legitimacy.

Freedom Interrupted

2018 ◽  
pp. 251-274
Author(s):  
James David Nichols
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
Runaway Slaves ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

Scholars have long suggested that nineteenth-century runaway slaves turned the U.S.-Mexico border into a line of freedom. However, as this chapter argues, such an interpretation of the border is somewhat problematic. A closer examination of the history of northern Tamaulipas explains why. From 1820 onward, African Americans began to arrive to that region in search of freedom and a changed racial milieu, but this process was deeply fraught. U.S. American jurisprudence could continue to affect Mexican space formally and informally from the outside, greatly troubling Mexican sovereignty and its foreign relations in the process. Hence, the freedom found by African Americans in Mexico—guaranteed by Mexican law—was never particularly secure in practice. This chapter builds upon the previous chapter and provides an in-depth analysis of a specific case study of fugitive slaves’ struggles for freedom in the Texas-Mexico borderlands.

Service-Learning Field Experiences to Build Intercultural Competence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1133-1156
Author(s):  
Judith Munter ◽  
Beverley Calvo ◽  
Laura Irene Dino Morales ◽  
Andres A. Oroz
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Master Teachers ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

There is a call today for preparing teachers to reflect on their role as agents for global change, as engaged citizens responsible for helping to create a more equitable society. This chapter explores the transformative potential for the integration of service-learning into field experiences through examination of a bi-national teacher education project located on the U.S.-México border. A primary purpose of this chapter was to examine the ways in which service-learning field experiences enrich and deepen intercultural competence of teacher candidates. Qualitative data, including interview transcripts, reflective essays, and reports were analyzed to determine the extent to which U.S. and Mexican master teachers, graduate students, and teacher candidates' perceptions of their work with transnational learners changed as a result of bicultural, bi-national service-learning field experiences. The findings demonstrate the potential of service-learning for developing intercultural competence in current and future teachers.

scholarly journals The politics of translating ethnographic ideoscapes the death and life of Aida Hernandez: a border story

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Rachael Anneliese Radhay
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Security ◽  
Border Literature ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

The ecology of immigration discourse is an ideoscape in flux. It is a landscape constructed along human mobility, lifeworlds, ontological state security as well as along emotional and institutional complexities.  There has been significant recent proliferation of border literature and ethnographies that represent narratives of migrants on the U.S-Mexico border. Ethnography as non-fiction literature documents border trajectories.  This paper seeks to address how these trajectories are represented and or translated through a case study of the non-fiction work, The death and life of Aida Hernandez: a border story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (2019) in which there is a distinct ecology in the ethos of ethnography and immigrant criminalization.  This case study assesses therefore the relation between the politics of ethnographic ideoscapes, translation and agency based upon Critical Discourse Analysis (Wodak & Kollner, 2008;  Wodak  & Meyer, 2016) as well as   evaluation and decision-making (Munday, 2012) when translating ethnography as a genre of represented  voices.    

Service-Learning Volunteerism Reboot

2020 ◽  
pp. 214-238
Author(s):  
Hannah Park ◽  
Jana Roberta Minifie
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

How universities adapt SL varies almost as much as the number of universities that offer those programs as SL can vary from volunteerism to internships. Seventy-seven SL administrators participated in a survey on the perceptions of the U.S. colleges on the definition of SL activities. The survey results indicated the participants less likely consider an academic community engagement project as a SL when it is paid by the community partner. This chapter examines the importance of including funded community engagement scholarship in SL activities. Following the survey results, the chapter further addresses how funding from community partners may strengthen the definition of SL by introducing The Design Laboratory, The Lab, from Memphis College of Art as a case study. The Lab was a student-driven design agency that provided SL activities to the students and communities. Most of The Lab's SL activities were funded by the community partners.

Consultation in Afghanistan: A Case Study

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott K. Simonds
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Health Educators ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Actual Consultation ◽  
Culture Work

This case describes the experiences of one consultant working in Afghanistan, for ten weeks. The case is organized around the consultation cycle, and the problems for which consultation was requested. It raises important questions in terms of how consultants from one culture work in another; how multilateral agencies contract for consultant services — a process which usually prevents the consultant and consultee from interacting around the problems prior to the actual consultation; and how one consultation builds upon the previous consultations, albeit by different consultants. Implicit is the recognition of the need for special preparation in consultation for health educators and for working in cross-cultural contexts.

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