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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...do. Last month, we sent our students to Botswana to do service learning there, to work with AIDS orphans and to work with disabled..."
An experiential school practice in which students are sent into demanding social settings, here Botswana, to work with vulnerable people and process the experience reflectively. Rebecca and Jiang use the term for hands-on educational work in Botswana where students encounter unfamiliar lives and must respond concretely to other people's needs.
Jiang says the school sent students to Botswana for service learning with AIDS orphans and disabled children because cross-cultural adaptation and processing difficult experience train empathy.
Jiang says transformative travel depends less on the trip itself than on the motivation students carry into it; framing Botswana as a college-application booster weakens the empathetic effect.
He argues that parent and social-circle pressure push Chinese families toward SAT study, memorization, and visible credential work, making empathy-centered practices like reading and African service learning harder to justify.
Rebecca says working with a nonverbal girl with Down syndrome forced her to spend an unusually long stretch trying to infer another person's wants and feelings, including realizing the girl was thirsty and getting her water.
"...do. Last month, we sent our students to Botswana to do service learning there, to work with AIDS orphans and to work with disabled..."
"I mean, we sent our students to Botswana and they came back to transform. But I think that that's 9 % of it. How..."
"...he reading books and you know going to Africa to do service learning what's the point of that and so what's really important for..."
"...nice to us. Um, so I think, and we also did service learning there, um, and, well, I think just all these added up..."
"What specifically about service learning that, that sort of, um, that sort of, um, focus on empathy?"
"And that, and some had difficulties expressing themselves. So I was sitting with that one girl who couldn't speak and, um, and we were..."
"...just worrying about someone else along the time. And during the service learning process, we work with children that had, um, Down syndrome."
Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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