The EIESL team kicked off summer with five fantastic new additions to the project. Coming from very different academic and geographic backgrounds, it’s amazing to reflect on summer accomplishments, one undoubtedly being the sense of community we’ve established within our team. As we move forward with excitement into the school year, we look back with pride for all we’ve accomplished in the summer of 2010.
As our five new team members were introduced to the EIESL project, we were also introduced to a new resource put together during Year One of the project. The newly released Web Based Guidebook was put together through a series of dialogue sessions with the UBC community. Check it out at: http://www.ethicsofisl.ubc.ca
The Web Based Guidebook was used as a resource for five individual workshops that we each produced in the beginning of the summer. Topics included: Orientalism, Cultural Competence, Teaching and Learning, Ethical Pluralism, and Tropical Medicine. These interactive pilot workshops will be continued in the fall, as we introduce the iTalk series on campus.
EIESL hosted a summer launch at the Liu Institute for Global Issues to connect with past (and future) supporters of the project. With delicious refreshments to keep everyone energized, we introduced the new team, outlined the goals of the project for the second year and broke into discussion groups to obtain feedback on our ethically framed objectives for the fall.
Through a series of interviews with both faculty and student groups, the EIESL team collected and collated data for a collaborative research report that examined beta testers’ experience with the Web Based Guidebook. The information synthesized from these interviews was highly informative and will help shape future resources produced by individuals involved with the project. This report will be posted on the blog within the next few weeks for community feedback.
Upcoming events and coming ways to get involved:
As one of the founding members of the Global Lounge, EIESL will be providing three student workshops on workshop facilitation this fall. Further, the iTalk series will provide a forum for students to come together and discuss international issues through a workshop style format. It will be coordinated by Saida Rashid and hosted at the Global Lounge. Our cup of excitement runneth over when EIESL found out our application for a Student Directed Seminar was accepted. In second semester, Ricardo Segovia and Sara Radoff will be running Developing Internationalists:A Ethical Approach to Service. We encourage all students who are interested to register for the class.
With so much to celebrate, the EIESL team will put away our summer hats as we prepare for fall rain (full of ethics, of course). We hope everyone had a fantastic summer and is excited for the start of school. Welcome back to UBC!