At Home and Abroad: An Exploration of the Development of Global Citizenship Identity through Service-Learning

Muehlethaler, Stephanie Elisabeth

At Home and Abroad: An Exploration of the Development of Global Citizenship Identity through Service-Learning

dc.contributor.advisor	Spencer, Brenda L.
dc.contributor.author	Muehlethaler, Stephanie Elisabeth
dc.contributor.committeemember	Burns, Amy A.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Saunders, Sue
dc.date	2018-11
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-02T21:15:43Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-02T21:15:43Z
dc.date.issued	2018-09-19
dc.description.abstract	Post-secondary institutions strive to create experiential learning opportunities to foster students’ development. Service-learning, a form of experiential learning, has been employed as an effective strategy for exploration and development of outcomes that have been associated with global citizenship identity (Beard & Wilson, 2010; Jacoby 1996, 2015). This research explores students’ development of global citizenship identity from a different vantage point – engagement in a college-level, co-curricular service-learning program that offered both an international and domestic experience. The following question guided my study: What elements of a co-curricular service-learning trip foster and shape students’ understanding and development of their identities as global citizens? This study utilized case study methodology to gather in-depth perspectives on the experiences of college students who participated in either a domestic or an international co-curricular service-learning experience. Participants were interviewed twice: prior to and after they returned from the travel portion of their experience. Additional data sources included participants’ journals and photos that they took as records of their experience. For this study I developed and applied a conceptual framework to reflect how college students may understand and develop a global citizenship identity. This framework is supported by Jacoby’s (1996, 2015) argument that service-learning can be co-curricular, and experienced both domestically and internationally, Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) theory of identity development, and Baxter Magolda’s insights on self-authorship. Additionally, the framework incorporates Brigham’s (2011) model for global citizenship pedagogy and OXFAM’s definition of global citizenship (2006). Findings illustrate that participation in service-learning in one’s own country can foster development of global citizenship identity. This study demonstrates that when co-curricular service-learning experiences are thoughtfully designed, incorporating both reciprocity and reflection, they can be both successful and transformational for participants. Findings highlight how challenging it can be for students, even after engaging in service-learning, to define global citizenship and articulate an identity as a global citizen. This research contributes to the gap in Canadian scholarship pertaining to this topic, and findings are intended as a starting point, including some cautions, for post-secondary service-learning educators as they develop experiential learning opportunities designed to foster students’ global citizenship identity development.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Muehlethaler, S. E. (2018). At Home and Abroad: An Exploration of the Development of Global Citizenship Identity through Service-Learning (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/33082	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/33082
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/108729
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.publisher.place	Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.classification	Education--Administration	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Community College	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Higher	en_US
dc.title	At Home and Abroad: An Exploration of the Development of Global Citizenship Identity through Service-Learning
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education (EdD)
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