Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education in International Service-Learning: A Curriculum Exploring Race, Positionality, Power, and Privilege

<p>My project is an international service-learning curriculum intended to address the neocolonial implications that are perpetuated when sending predominately white, affluent participants abroad. My curriculum unpacks whiteness, privilege, the white savior complex, and American immigration history. Using race, power, and privilege, I explore how these themes relate to acquiring awareness and understanding of participants' societal positioning. Through this lens, my aim is that students can become aware of how systemic oppression works to disenfranchise certain groups, while others remain in power. With this awareness, students can become more mindful, aware, conscious, and critically engaged with their host communities through an understanding of self and others. My curriculum uses critical pedagogy to develop critical analysis and consciousness around one’s identity and positionality in order to combat neocolonialism and to promote peace education in international service-learning.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in International and Multicultural Education (IME)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International and Multicultural Education (IME)

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Lizárraga, Lissette A

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rosa M. Jimenez

• International service-learning
• volunteer abroad
• critical pedagogy
• peace education
• whiteness
• Education
• International and Comparative Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/458

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1481