| Abstrakt: |
In this paper, the authors reflect upon the challenges they faced in an international service-learning course offered to U.S. undergraduate students about the complexities of the U.S. relationship with Mexico. The goal was to provide students with a critically-informed service experience involving a fully collaborative social exchange among their student group, Mexican immigrants, and the home communities in Mexico. Despite its departure from the model service-learning experience, the authors conclude that the project was nonetheless meaningful and worthwhile. They liken this kind of work to the process of creating humus: a messy, undefined organic process, full of questions, mistakes, uncertainties and a lack of control for outcomes, yet essential for the fertility of the soil and for plant growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
