In:
International Social Work, SAGE Publications, Vol. 60, No. 6 ( 2017-11), p. 1578-1590
Abstract:
International service learning (ISL) programs seek to facilitate community inclusion, but such participation can prove elusive. For technical projects, such ventures can undermine local leadership, generate mistrust in communities, and even create an aversion to technological solutions. In this article, we document how social work and engineering students collaborated to bring clean water to rural Guatemala, and demonstrate how we employed social work principles to address the myriad issues encountered in the project. We contend that the inclusion of a social work perspective, with its emphasis on relationships, can help mitigate some of the challenges ISL projects tend to encounter.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0020-8728
,
1461-7234
DOI:
10.1177/0020872816655869
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2017
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2050567-X
SSG:
3,4
