This session will discuss how community service and service-learning based programs operate in the Middle East broadly, and in Jordan specifically. Whether directly connected to course concepts and content or not, service learning provides students with experiences to develop skills identified in the IB Learner Profile, particularly being inquirers, thinkers, caring, and reflective (IBO). But what does this actually look like in Jordan? In this session we will discuss the framework of post-critical service learning (Bruce 2011), which focuses on relationships of power and privilege within service. We will offer a contextualized and culturally-relevant way to design community and service learning in the Middle East.
