A Framework for Harm Reduction in Service Learning

IService practitioners are uniquely positioned to support community members to understand their current and potential impact on important global issues. This session will introduce an ongoing, reflective framework to deepen the intentionality of values and impacts made during service learning in international schools. This tool addresses how ethics, power, privilege, and identity may increase or reduce harmful practices associated with service learning.
Participants to this session will:
- Access a practical tool that can be used to assess current and future service learning in their school.
- Gain awareness about harm that may be caused by service learning, as well as ways to avoid it.
- Foster intentional service learning through setting students and school communities up for lifelong contributions and engagement with real world issues in a sustainable way
We welcome school community members seeking to build more effective service learning experiences that promote responsibility, accountability, dignity, and humanity for all involved.