Artigo Revisado por pares

Launch out into the deep: a psychotherapist’s view of an international service-learning experience

2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 48; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03069885.2019.1707168

ISSN

1469-3534

Autores

Chin-Ping Liou,

Tópico(s)

Social Work Education and Practice

Resumo

This qualitative study explores how emotions are experienced and handled during international service-learning (ISL) initiatives. It involved one focus group discussion and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with six college students engaged in a 10-day ISL project in Burkina Faso. Their accounts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four major themes emerged from the data analysis: (1) awareness of emotions, (2) regulation of emotions, (3) reflection on emotions, and (4) transformation of emotions. The importance of emotional experiences in ISL are underscored in this study and the potential of ISL to become a means to help deepen students’ experiential learning is demonstrated.

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