In this presentation high school teachers Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten present a service learning course that they teach at Hong Kong International School called Humanities I in Action that offers students a transformative journey of social conscience. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary curriculum has been developed in the past ten years that enables students to consider their place in the world. An essential part of the curriculum are ten out-of-the-classroom experiences, including a 4-day trip to an orphanage in China. The depth gained in this course is also due in part to the amount of time, 80 minutes/day for 180 days, with motivated students who have chosen to take the class. Following an introduction of the course curriculum, the presenters will share a recently created video, which provides interview excerpts from students who have participated in and have been deeply impacted by the course. Using Marty\u27s research on social conscience as a guide, student comments in the video are metaphorically placed onto the symbol of a labyrinth to provide a unifying structure for their individual journeys through the course. You may learn more about social conscience curricula from Marty\u27s blog: http://martinschmidtinasia.wordpress.com
