Discourse of 'Helping the Poor': Rethinking Global Poverty and Its Pedagogical Possibilities in Higher Education

Autor/in	Cai, Xiuying
Titel	Discourse of 'Helping the Poor': Rethinking Global Poverty and Its Pedagogical Possibilities in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 42 (2021) 5, S.765-779 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2020.1843115
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Economically Disadvantaged; Illiteracy; Global Approach; Sustainable Development; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Student Motivation; Field Trips; Interdisciplinary Approach; Problem Solving; Consciousness Raising; Social Justice; Business Administration Education; Helping Relationship; Experiential Learning; Foreign Countries; India; Uganda; Tanzania; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Analphabetismus; Globales Denken; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Schulische Motivation; Exkursion; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Problemlösen; Bewusstseinsbildung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Helfende Beziehung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Ausland; Indien; Tansania; Argentinien
Abstract	As the global community strives for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the first goal of 'ending poverty in all its forms everywhere', university students' learning experiences and understanding about global poverty remain comparatively unexplored. This in-depth qualitative study examines how university students in the USA understand global poverty and what it means to 'help the poor' in a year-long international interdisciplinary experiential education program at a Midwestern American university. The program is dedicated to teaching students about global poverty and to problem-solve for people living in subsistence contexts in the USA, India, Uganda, Tanzania and Argentina, through experiential learning projects such as sustainable product, services and business design. The study shows, despite students' expressed intention to help the poor, they draw upon a variety of understandings of global poverty and what it means to help the poor. Contrasting these different understandings, I suggest a dialogic pedagogy with some conceptual tools and theoretical resources for students to better understand their bottom-up experiential learning experience. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01