Fair Trade Learning Retreat

The Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative is excited to host a day-long fair trade learning retreat, Strengthening community partnerships, global-civic learning, and ethical practices in education abroad and community-based learning.

Please note:

• Participants can choose among two different sessions or attend the entire retreat.
• This is a free event for Dickinson College-affiliated attendees, who register elsewhere.

Session 1 → Fair Trade Learning: Train the Trainer (Lunch Included)
11:00 am - 2:30 pm

Interested in developing your own capacities to support faculty, staff, student, and community partner understanding of FTL principles and practices? This workshop will provide an overview of the community and international development literature and community-articulated best practices that led to FTL as an ethical framework for civic and global learning abroad, while providing you with tools to facilitate FTL training in your own contexts, whether on campus or elsewhere.

Session 2 → Community-Engaged Global Learning from Your Discipline: Integrating Experiential Learning (Networking Reception that follows Included)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Whether you’re planning to take students abroad for 10 days, 4 weeks, or you are overseeing whole semester programming, there are numerous research-backed best practices that help operationalize the connections among your discipline, community partnerships, and rigorous general learning goals such as civic and global learning. This workshop will orient you to best practices in program leadership, specifically attending to the integration of civic and global learning goals, coupling conventional disciplinary knowledge with experiential learning, and collaborating with community partners across programming and instruction.

Through a network of educational institutions and community organizations, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative advances community-based global learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities. One of our four primary activites is to promote Fair Trade Learning principles that challenge us to work toward partnerships that exhibit common purposes, leadership from those who are most affected, protections for members of vulnerable populations, participation opportunities among those who are most effected, consciousness and evaluation efforts regarding theories of change, ethical representation, intentional environmental and economic impacts and transparency, and critical visioning of how we move toward more just, inclusive, sustainable communities and global community. We invite you to join the Collaborative's network by committing yourself and your organization to partnership-building that exhibits these characteristics.

Eric Hartman is and serves as Executive Director of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. He has offered more than 100 academic and popular articles, keynotes, and consultancies deepening quality and expanding breadth of civic, community, and global engagement. Contributions include interrogating foundational democratic commitments in (2013), minting Fair Trade Learning as an ethical approach to international volunteering in (2014), exploring universal rights, community engagement, and leadership development in (2017), linking cultural wealth, rights advocacy, and quantitative analysis in (2020), and arguing that global thinking is essential for civic education in (2024). Hartman occasionally teaches for the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. At Haverford he oversees local and international summer and academy year internships connected with positive peace-building, in addition to faculty-led study abroad, and supporting local community partnerships.

Samantha Brandauer is and currently Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Global Study and Engagement at Dickinson College and co-director of the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative. She currently leads a diverse, global team with staff and faculty in Cameroon, Argentina, England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. It is the relationships with these incredible individuals who guide the learning and impact of U.S. students in their own local communities that inspires her and fills her with hope that international education can and should lead to creating more just, sustainable and equitable communities.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dickinson College, 28 North College Street, Carlisle, United States