Service Learning Log #2

Activism:
This week should be a good week for our service learning project; we are having our big event this Saturday with the Girl Scouts at a park in Deltona. The plan is to have each girl bring a can good to the event as their “admission” and then we are going to play games and have ice breakers, and I also think we are going to do arts and crafts and make baskets of food for the homeless shelter. Hopefully this event will be successful and more girls will show up.
Reflection:
The activism we are doing this week relates to what we are learning in class because we just read the article Change It Up! What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership from The Girl Scouts of America and it talks about how girls are rethinking their views on leadership and it states that a lot of young girls are ambivalent about leadership itself and that their greatest single barrier is self-perception and a lack of confidence in their own skills and competencies (9). These young girls are saying that the idea of leadership needs to change to fully engage them, so hopefully in working with these girls we can help them see leadership as a positive thing and as something they can achieve with whatever skills and competencies that they have.
Reciprocity:
I am learning a lot from this service learning project in terms of girls and leadership, however I am also seeing all the difficulties associated with youth leadership and adult intervention. It’s been nice working with these girls to foster a sense of community and to learn more about their views on leadership.
Works Cited:
Fleshman, Paula, and Salmond, Kimberlee, and Schoenberg, Judy. Change it Up! What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership. New York: Girl Scouts of the USA, 2008. Executive Summary.