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A Good Traveler Has No Fixed Plans, from the Tao Te Ching
Reading
This selection is taken from the main text of Taoist thought, the Tao Te Ching. Its author, Lao-Tzu, is considered the father of Chinese Taoism, though debate continues as to…
Wendy Kopp, Leader of Teach for America
Reading
Written by Jodi Wilgoren and published by The New York Times on November 12, 2000, “Wendy Kopp, Leader of Teach for America” looks closely at the life and leadership philosophy…
Service Learning Students - Community, Leadership, and Change
It went well. The room was comfortable. The group had already unified (which in this case was positive). I used a stock opener, asking that each person talk to the…
University Faculty and Staff - Connecting Across Difference in the Classroom
I began by asking participants to think and write just for themselves about a classroom situation in which (whether as student, teacher, child, adult) they became acutely aware that they…
University Faculty and Staff Engaged in Service-Learning - Introducing Civic Reflection
The facilitator (a professor of English) proposed the following line of questioning: *What was your experience of the story? *Was this "visit of charity" a good experience for Marian? *Is…