Service Politics: AntiGenocide Activism and ServiceLearning Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.

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Service Politics Anti-Genocide Activism and
Service-LearningEllen J. Kennedy, Ph.D.
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Rwanda
Turkey
Darfur
The Holocaust
Bosnia
Cambodia
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VICTIMS
PERPETRATOR
RESCUER
BYSTANDERS
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Map of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
Empire 1,500,000 killed
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The Armenian Genocide
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The Holocaust 11,000,000 killed
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Cambodia 1,200,000 killed
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The Cambodian Genocide
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Bosnia 200,000 killed
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Mass grave in Bosnia
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Rwanda
The Rwandan Genocide 800,000 killed
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The Darfur Genocide 400,000 killed
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Human Rights Watch
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The Collaboration American Refugee
Committee Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies Genocide Intervention Network
MN Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter Middle and
High School
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Goal Have a hand in preventing and stopping
genocide Educate Advocate Donate
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• Why?
• Genocide will be more frequent and
• more violent in this century unless we
• prevent and stop it.
• Resource scarcity
• Increasing population
• Increasingly-lethal weapons
• Increasingly-angry people

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• Need for the Program
• Current holocaust and genocide education does not
  prevent or stop atrocities.
• Student and citizen disengagement is widespread.
• Xenophobia in classes and communities is
  increasing.
• Students dont link learning with experience,
  academics with activism

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Taking a Stand Against Genocide Partnership
between Gustavus Adolphus College private
St. Peter High School public CHGS
public Genocide Intervention Network
NGO American Refugee Committee - NGO
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Service Politics The problem gap between young
people and politics The concept link between
direct service and social change The
practice link between youth, policy-makers, and
nonprofit organizations
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• Program Goal
• Service Politics shape public policy
• Students
• Faculty
• Institutions
• Organizations
• Communities

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Long-Term Outcomes Service Politics Student
Retention and Engagement Enhanced
Faculty-Student Interaction Increased
Matriculation of Under-Represented
Groups Student Activism and Civic
Engagement Public Policy Changes
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Service Politics Making It Work Keys Flexibil
ity Integrity Reciprocity Sustainability Trus
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Pedagogy Collaborative between teachers and
students Collaborative between schools and
organizations Collaborative within student
groups Shifts in hierarchy, power, assumptions
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Description of the Collaboration 6 shared class
sessions high school and college
students Projects on the Holocaust and/or
genocides Projects brought to the
community Students educate about citizen
engagement and civic responsibility
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Description of the Collaboration Role-modeling
for high school students Expert opportunity
for first-year college students Co-curricular
engagement Community connections
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Camp Darfur
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Speaker Mark Hanis
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Topsy-Turvey Mouse the connection between
violence and abuse in our daily lives and the
military incarcerations and torture in todays
headlines.
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Service Politics Making It Work OTIRE The
Model Orientation Training Implementation Refl
ection Evaluation
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Orientation Students, Faculty,
Staff Orientation to the goals as the group will
experience them Introduction to the macro- and
the micro-level contexts Preparation of the
stage
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TRAINING Students, Faculty, Staff Training
for the site, the subject, the application Differ
ent from orientation focus is on what to do on
the stage
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Implementation Students, Faculty, Staff The
work itself curriculum development and
practice Keys reciprocity learning
monitoring
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Reflection Students, Faculty, Staff Must be
both affective and cognitive Description Interp
retation Evaluation Integration and Synthesis
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Service Politics Making It Work Evaluation
Feedback from Students Faculty Staff Community
Organizations
Goals
Evaluate Program
Expected Outcomes
Measures of Assessment
Analyze Results
Gather Data
Assessment Strategy
Check Implementation
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Mosaic of Diversity
Religion
Economics
Age Race Ability Gender Ethnicity Sexual
Orientation
Parental status
Education
Geographical area
Military experience
Personality
Marital status
Learning style
Work status
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Goals for High School Model the college
experience. Increase college matriculation. Incr
ease classroom engagement. Increase
student-teacher connections.
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Goals for the College Increase discipline-based
engagement. Increase community
involvement. Increase classroom
engagement. Increase student-teacher
connections.
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Goals for GI-Net, CHGS, ARC Increase capacity
for citizen engagement. Increase community
outreach. Create citizen constituency.
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• Challenges and Opportunities
• Connections between the past and the present
• Connections between over there and right here
• Connections between the academic and the
  experiential
• Connections between the classroom and the
  community

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
single moment before starting to improve the
world.
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Discussion Applications to other
institutions Extensions Challenges Opportunitie
s
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