Propose a Blog Post
Interested in adding your voice to the conversation?
Have something to share with the community?
Thank you for considering a guest post. Our contributors are academics and practitioners, community organizers and community members, global service-learning skeptics and supporters. Together, we are working toward careful and conscientious global partnerships that advance human rights, interdependence, and ecological sustainability. Below, we have the process outlined for proposing a blog post and some examples to help guide you.
Site Guidelines
We define community-based global learning as a community-driven learning and/or service experience that employs structured, critically reflective practice to better understand global citizenship, positionality, power, structure, and social responsibility in global context. (Hartman, Kiely, Boettcher, & Friedrichs, 2018, p. 21).
Our bloggers share their CBGL work and experiences that are empirically grounded, inform practice, and demonstrate application of the principles we share.
It’s become our practice to include citations in text and at the end of posts (APA format) as many of our readers are interested in sources.
We typically request 1,000 – 2,000 words, but some find brevity challenging. In the past we have split up long posts over multiple entries.
Examples
This field is large and diverse and coming from many different disciplinary spaces. There are many ways to invite people in our network but outside one’s home discipline into conversation about issues that matter to all of us. Our blog posts are invitations to deeper dialogue and field building.
To give two examples:
Faith Valencia-Forrester, shared her compelling reflections on the U.S. in a moment of democratic unraveling, and what community-based global learning can offer — in only 550 words.
Alternatively:
Mac Benavides discussed how educators and program administrators can reimagine community-engaged global programs as tools for liberation in just over 2,200 words, pushing the limits of our typical blog length in a different way.
Ready to Propose a Post?
Our readers are interested in and involved with both community-engaged courses and programs in a local context and global civic engagement experiences.
They are researchers and practitioners, faculty, staff, students, community members and nonprofit partners. We see an average of 50 visits a day to our blog webpages.
We are experimenting with synergies between our blog and podcast, so be sure to note your interest in both when you complete our form.
Thank you very much for considering a post to share with the site and community!