Transcript Group 7 Sharing in the 24 August 2012 Discussion Workshop 20th ASEACCU Conference on ServiceLearning & Social Entrepreneurship Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Group 7 Sharing
in the 24 August 2012
Discussion Workshop
20th ASEACCU Conference on ServiceLearning & Social Entrepreneurship
Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Group 7 Members
Name
Institution
Sr. Somsri Sumet
Kasumi Abe
St. Louis College, Bangkok
Eduardo Lopez Baylon
St. Scholastica’s College, Manila
Glen Vivian Chatelier
Assumption College, Bangkok
Lunar Bernardo Cuevas
De La Salle University, Lipa
Darwin Dy Yu
Mei-Fei Lu
Ateneo de Manila University
I-Chen Lin
Wenzao Ursuline Colleges of Languages
University of Sacred Heart
Wenzao Ursuline Colleges of Languages
Q1: Social Entrepreneurship
(On institutional collaboration and cooperation )
1. Ateneo de Manila University (Phils.) and the
Center for Social Innovation of Gawad-Kalinga
(“Give Care”)
– 4th year business students enrolled in 2-semester
Strategy Management courses work with GK
communities to develop social enterprises.
2. Assumption University (Thailand) and its
“Dummy Corporation”
- Business students spend 10 months training and
planning the products to sell, and then 2 months
during summer to actually sell the products. Income
from the sales used for student scholarship.
Q1: Social Entrepreneurship
(On institutional collaboration and cooperation )
3. Wenzao Ursuline College and the Ministry of
Education
- Faculty members advise students on how to apply for
Ministry grant or special subsidy for social
entrepreneurship at the Innovation and Incubation
Center.
- The Center is engaged in the “One Town One
Product” project to help 316 small towns or villages in
Taiwan to identify a special product to attract more
tourists or to help promote local values or
attractiveness.
Q2: Service Learning (SL)
(New Outlook or Understanding)
1. Wenzao Ursuline College (Taiwan)
– Recruit senior students to be language tutors with
very basic pay; need to be trained like what
professional teachers need to do; should have sense
of providing services to help other schoolmates.
– Students with SL experience get better job offers.
2. University Atma Jaya Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
– Compulsory SL: students live in villages for a month
and think of projects that benefit the villages.
– Lately, thematic SL that focus on tourism villages.
“Real work in real world”
Q2: Service Learning (SL)
(New Outlook or Understanding)
3. St. Scholastica’s College Basic Education
(Phils.)
– Grade school students research on different
Philippine regions and do live interaction with
representatives from these regions.
4. St. Louis College Nursing College (Thailand)
– Compulsory community service in health education
and elderly care. Constant presence during masses
gained the community’s trust such that during the
flood, the students were very effective in the collection
and distribution of relief goods to flood victims,
especially those from the Muslim community.
Q2: Service Learning (SL)
(New Outlook or Understanding)
5. Seisen University (Japan)
– Outreach programs implemented as part of career
planning and student internship
– Primary concerns: dangers of nuclear power,
dwindling interest of young people in farming
– 2-week field work in developing countries
6. Ateneo de Manila University (Phils.)
– SL projects seem to be more focused on students’
learning than on community impact.
– May need to develop strategic plan so that SL
projects have greater and sustainable community
impact.
Q2: Service Learning (SL)
(New Outlook or Understanding)
7. De La Salle University – Lipa (Phils.)
– All teachers required to render at least 120 hours of
community service per year, but many teachers
exceed 120 hours. Teachers have imbibed spirit of
service.
8. University of Sacred Heart (Japan)
– Volunteer Support Center
Reflections
• Action without reflection is meaningless.
• “A little drop of water can cause a large ripple.”
• Students look up to teachers, so teachers should
serve as role models. Action speak louder than
words.
• Sometimes it is more important just to
accompany people instead of doing something
for them. People need to have time to be strong
again.