Start Date
6-6-2013 3:10 PM
End Date
6-6-2013 4:40 PM
Description
In this presentation high school teachers Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten present a service learning course that they teach at Hong Kong International School called "Humanities I in Action" that offers students a transformative journey of social conscience. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary curriculum has been developed in the past ten years that enables students to consider their place in the world. An essential part of the curriculum are ten out-of-the-classroom experiences, including a 4-day trip to an orphanage in China. The depth gained in this course is also due in part to the amount of time, 80 minutes/day for 180 days, with motivated students who have chosen to take the class. Following an introduction of the course curriculum, the presenters will share a recently created video, which provides interview excerpts from students who have participated in and have been deeply impacted by the course. Using Marty's research on social conscience as a guide, student comments in the video are metaphorically placed onto the symbol of a labyrinth to provide a unifying structure for their individual journeys through the course. You may learn more about social conscience curricula from Marty's blog: http://martinschmidtinasia.wordpress.com/
Booklet: Christ, Conscience, and the Curriculum: ALEA Schools in Mission
Recommended Citation
Schmidt, M., & Kersten, M. (2013, June). Journeys of social conscience: Humanities I in Action at Hong Kong International School. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
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Journeys of social conscience : Humanities I in Action at Hong Kong International School
In this presentation high school teachers Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten present a service learning course that they teach at Hong Kong International School called "Humanities I in Action" that offers students a transformative journey of social conscience. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary curriculum has been developed in the past ten years that enables students to consider their place in the world. An essential part of the curriculum are ten out-of-the-classroom experiences, including a 4-day trip to an orphanage in China. The depth gained in this course is also due in part to the amount of time, 80 minutes/day for 180 days, with motivated students who have chosen to take the class. Following an introduction of the course curriculum, the presenters will share a recently created video, which provides interview excerpts from students who have participated in and have been deeply impacted by the course. Using Marty's research on social conscience as a guide, student comments in the video are metaphorically placed onto the symbol of a labyrinth to provide a unifying structure for their individual journeys through the course. You may learn more about social conscience curricula from Marty's blog: http://martinschmidtinasia.wordpress.com/