ABSTRACT

This chapter is a reflection on the English teachers’ initiative that Indiana University has undertaken in Rwanda as part of the Books and Beyond student International Service Learning (ISL) program. The aim of the study was to reflect on how two programs that had started in the Global North and been applied on Global South spaces related to integrationism. It used qualitative research methods and integrationism. The chapter concludes by asserting that integrationism is a progressive process that gradually unravels as the Global North recognizes and embraces the Global South epistemologies that for many years have been left out of academia.