Yon, Daniel2015-08-282015-08-282014-02-142015-08-28http://hdl.handle.net/10315/29828This research looks at four participants’ identity formation 3 years after their international service-learning (ISL) trip to Kenya. It focuses on life after ISL and the challenges of translating lessons learned abroad into meaningful action upon return. In the process, it speaks to participants’ struggles in resisting social conformity, conflicts with opinions of friends and family, consequences of challenging the status quo, ambivalent and contradictory commitments, and cosmopolitan identity formation attaching them to multiple global locations beyond the local. Findings are threefold: 1) ISL trips provided experiences, stories, relationships, challenges, and opportunities that contribute to various identity narratives; 2) struggles and conflicts experienced upon return destabilized participants’ sense of identity leading to, 3) an embodied cosmopolitan identity. Implications of these findings suggest educators recognize both the challenges and opportunities students may face when confronting hegemonic norms post-ISL.enAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.EducationAdult educationCultural anthropologyElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2015-08-28CosmopolitanismSocial justiceIdentityInternational service-learningInternational educationFeminist epistemology