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University of Central FloridaEducating the Marginalized in Post-Colonial Botswana and Namibia: Comparative Perspectives within K-20 African Areas Studies Project Type: Short-Term Seminar Host Country: Botswana, Namibia Amount of Time in Country: 5 weeks Number of Participants: 16 Project Director: Dr. Karen Biramaih Partner Institutions: Florida A&MU (FAMU), University of Botswana (UB), University of Namibia (UNAM) Orange County Public Schools – Florida, Leon County Public Schools – Florida, Gadsden County Public Schools – Florida Competitive Preference Priorities: #1: FAMU is a Minority Serving Institution, #4: 10 Teachers; 71 Percent of Participants Abstract: This proposed GPA has the propensity to enhance current K-20 African area studies curriculum by providing participants with a better understanding of the rich diversity and uniqueness of African countries and communities. By focusing on a comparison of what initially appear to be quite similar emerging nations, Botswana and Namibia, this GPA will emphasize an appreciation for the vast historical and cultural diversity found throughout Africa (thus avoiding the temptation to leave Africa with a simplistic and overgeneralized understanding of the continent). To this end, participants will first develop an appreciation for the impact of diverse historical and decolonization factors on nation building. Moreover, throughout the program participants will be provided with multiple opportunities to better understand how the diverging socio-economic and political histories of decolonization within Botswana and Namibia have impacted their respective goals for enhancing access to quality education for all students, including the marginalized. As this GPA is designed to provide a bridge from the theoretical to the practical, participants will also engage in service-learning activities in Remote Area Dweller Schools within rural Botswana, and the schools of Namibia’s Katutura Township, a product of South Africa’s decades long apartheid rule over Namibia (then called South West Africa). Not only will these experiences provide critical opportunities for participants to better understand the factors that impact nation building, they will also gain significant knowledge, experiences and artifacts to enhance current K-20 African area studies curriculum. Moreover, participant immersion within these vibrant, yet diverse nations and communities will be of particular importance to participants from Florida school districts. Florida represents a culturally diverse state with its own history of discrimination and marginalization and experiences ongoing challenges to provide quality education to increasing numbers of immigrant students. To this end, the program will provide participants with opportunities:
As a tangential reward, the program will also forge a partnership between two diverse Florida universities (metropolitan-based UCF, and a current HBCU, FAMU), and two diverse emerging African universities (UB and UNAM). University of GeorgiaFulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Intensive Advanced Kiswahili Project Type: Long-Term Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Host Country: Tanzania Amount of Time in Country: 9 weeks Number of Participants: 13 (university students with two years of Swahili language education) Project Directors: Dr. Lioba Moshi and Dr. Dainess Maganda, 141 Joe Brown Hall, Athens, GA 30602, Telephone: 706-542-2140 or 706-542-9587, Fax and E-mail: 706-542-2155 and moshi@uga.edu and magandad@uga.edu Abstract: The University of Georgia (UGA) proposes a Long-Term Group Projects Abroad Intensive Kiswahili to provide fellowships for intensive summer Kiswahili language study in Tanzania for 12 participants for summer of 2017. The fellowships will enable participants to travel to Tanzania, receive instruction in Kiswahili and live among native speakers and to experience East African culture first hand for eight weeks. The objectives of the project are:
The project will facilitate participants’ enhancement of their language proficiency skills from intermediate level to advanced level, while developing their critical skills in cross-cultural communication. Further, participants will expand their knowledge base on Tanzania: historical, geographical and socio-economic structures. For three decades, Fulbright-Hays Kiswahili GPA has provided unique opportunities and fellowships to students for the purposes of enhancing their already acquired Kiswahili language competency and cross- cultural development by traveling, living and studying in East Africa during the summer. We would like to build on the success of the program and provide such fellowships to more students. By doing so, the program will accomplish the goals of GPA, namely, to meet the nation’s security and economic needs by strengthening the teaching of foreign languages, as well as area and international studies. The program will provide pre-departure seminars to enhance the proposed intensive cultural immersion and experience in Tanzania. The program will recruit at least twelve participants from institutions of higher learning in the United States of America. The program will be under the oversite of the Association of African Studies Programs (AASP) and in collaboration with the African Language Teachers Association (ALTA) and the Association for the Promotion of Kiswahili in the World (CHAUKIDU). The program will use every possible opportunity to recruit a diverse pool of participants. The 8- week overseas immersion program is the capstone of the program and it will be exclusively funded through the USDE funds while the 8 hours of pre-departure workshops/seminars will be funded by UGA-Tanzania Study Abroad program and the African Studies Institute outreach program. The pre-departure seminars will consist of nuts and bolts, preliminary host country specific knowledge and general orientation. This will be done through webinar workshops to be held in four weekend days at the University of Georgia (two hours each month of February, March, April, and May 2017). Time spent at the workshops can be claimed towards the general course credit. The in-country immersion program will take place in Tanzania at the Mwenge University College of Education (MWECAU). In country logistics will be overseen by the Center for Outreach, Research, and Educational Programs, associated with the UGA Tanzania Studies Abroad programs. Absolute priority and Competitive Preference Priority 3 will be addressed in this project application. Directory: programs -> iegpsgpa programs -> Summaries of Relevant Studies Reviewed by the Department That Meet the Standard for Moderate Evidence of Effectiveness programs -> Project Scoring Template Pre-Construction Phase New Core/Branch Campus Projects programs -> University of Hawai‘i Maui College dental assisting program review october 21, 2013 programs -> Invitation for Bid Calact/mbta for Standard Floor and Low Floor Rural Duty Vehicles ifb no. 12-03 November 14, 2012 programs -> Schedule of Events for 2014-2015 Camp Trotter vts & Golf June 20-22, 2014 programs -> Interpreting Weather Satellite Data Introduction programs -> Canadian Forces (CF) programs -> China News in Brief August, 2011 programs -> Kerry B. Dumbaugh iegpsgpa -> Table of Contents Plan of Operation 1 Download 153.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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