Study Abroad for College of Education Majors!
International Study of Teaching and Learning Environments: the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany
EDUC 498I (3 credits)
May 27 - June 15, 2008
The College of Education Alumni Board is excited to bring you a shared learning experience. We will visit a variety of schools and classrooms in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany and compare them to our own experience in U.S. schools. One of the goals of the program is to apply what we learn to understanding similarities and differences in political, cultural, and social views through this unique educational opportunity.
This particular experience encourages a stronger connection between College of Education students and members of the Alumni Board, who will serve as mentors during the trip abroad. After your return from the Netherlands, alumni mentors will keep in touch in with you to support you as you apply new knowledge, skills and dispositions to present and future positions.
For more information:
http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/5350
or contact Pat Costantino at 301.405.5607
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Disability & Social Inclusion – A Cross-cultural Experience Between Brazil and the U.S.
EDCP 462/EDCP 798 (3 credits)
July 25 - August 10, 2008
Disability & Social Inclusion is an integrated team-taught course experience, where students from the University of Maryland will be learning alongside peers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and two Brazilian universities. This unique cross-cultural learning experience will involve collaborative teaching and learning experiences related to understanding the experience of disability in both the US and Brazil.
Classes will take place at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and participants will stay at a hotel near the USP campus. In-class lectures and discussions will be complemented by opportunities to visit rehabilitation and special education programs and facilities, meet governmental and NGO representatives involved in special education and rehabilitation, as well as consumer groups in Brazil. Through the course students will develop an awareness and understanding of Brazilian society and culture, hone their writing skills, and reflect on the role of civic engagement, multiculturalism and power in a global society.
We will spend the final weekend of the 2-week course on a guided trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
For more information:
http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/5262
or contact Dr. Ellen Fabian at efabian@umd.edu
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El Salvador's Children - Risk, Poverty and Education
EDSP 488B/788B/ CPSP 379E (3 credits)
January 8-23, 2009
Most of this two-week service-learning experience will take place in a small, rural village, one to two hours from San Salvador. You will live with campesinos (poor, rural families), learn about their culture, and work alongside them to carry out a project that promotes education and social opportunity. We will focus on factors that expose children, youth and families to intergenerational poverty and force many to risk migration to the United States.
The objective of the course is to understand the complex factors that have contributed to centuries of poverty, limited educational opportunity, caused a civil war, and forced hundreds of Salvadorans to risk migration to the U.S. each day. You will learn about popular education, and how it promotes literacy and social consciousness. By understanding the social and cultural context, you will also better understand how to serve a growing population of Latino children and families now living in the United States.
Faculty Director
Dr. Paula Beckman is a Professor in the Department of Special Education who specializes in working with young children and their families, cultural influences on development, and developmental risk factors. She has worked in Central America for eight years, leading trips of high school and college students. She has trained preschool teachers in 20 rural villages, and conducted needs assessments and trained teachers in urban and rural schools in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama. She is currently conducting research as part of public-private partnerships in Central America. Dr. Beckman may be reached via e-mail or phone, at.
For more information:
http://www.international.umd.edu/studyabroad/6350
or contact Dr. Paula Beckman at 301.405.6492 or pbeckman@umd.edu
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