What is Fair Trade Learning?
Fair Trade Learning, originally published by the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative, is “a global educational partnership exchange that prioritizes reciprocity in relationships through cooperative, cross-cultural participation in learning, service, and civil society efforts. It foregrounds the goals of economic equity, equal partnership, mutual learning, cooperative and positive social change, transparency, and sustainability. Fair Trade Learning explicitly engages the global civil society role of educational exchange in fostering a more just, equitable, and sustainable world (Hartman, Morris Paris, & Blache-Cohen, 2013).”
GYA uses Fair Trade Learning (FTL) in the GYA Standards of Accreditation. The Forum on Education Abroad adopts FTL for their Guidelines for Community Engaged Learning Experiences Abroad for global higher education. Additionally, several colleges, universities, and global education providers use FTL principles as guideposts in their community-based organizational partnerships.
GYA's Fair trade Learning Committee
In 2022, GYA partnered with the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative (“The Collaborative”), the original authors of the Fair Trade Learning Rubric, in order to develop a set of Fair Trade Learning Guides for the gap year field. Under the leadership of GYA’s Elizabeth Bezark and The Collaborative’s Caitlin Ferrarini, a Fair Trade Learning Committee was formed around the creation of the guides, which were completed at the end of 2022.
Fair Trade Learning Resources For...
Download gya’s fair trade learning guide for program providers
Introduction to FAIR TRADE LEARNING (FTL)
In the Deeper Dialogue below, GYA and Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative teams discuss FTL is, its history, and how GYA uses it.
Download GYA’s Fair trade learning guide for Higher ed institutions
Introduction to FAIR TRADE LEARNING (FTL)
In the Deeper Dialogue below, GYA and Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative teams discuss what FTL is, its history, and how GYA uses it.
download GYA’s fair trade learning guide for consultants
Introduction to FAIR TRADE LEARNING (FTL)
In the Deeper Dialogue below, GYA and Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative teams discuss what FTL is, its history, and how GYA uses it.
Download GYA’s fair trade learning guide for students & individuals
Introduction to FAIR TRADE LEARNING (FTL)
In the Deeper Dialogue below, GYA and Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative teams discuss what FTL is, its history, and how GYA uses it.