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The
College of Lifelong Learning at Jackson State University has been awarded
a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Grant to fund
a one-month seminar to South Africa. The
project will involve 7 college and university faculty and 7 schoolteachers who are
committed to international education and intercultural
studies. Since this is an interdisciplinary project,
participants will be drawn from humanities, social sciences, education,
business and social studies.
In addition to explorations into ethnic heritage,
cultural traditions, and history, the group will
focus on four select themes: (1) Women, family and
social change; (2) Women in politics, business and
the professions; (3) Women and rural economy; and
(4) Cultural feminism in African studies. The
month-long project will be implemented during summer 2009.
The project will have two distinct phases. First,
there will be a series of lectures, seminars, curriculum
development sessions and interviews at key universities
in South Africa such as University of Fort Hare, University of Kwazulu Natal, University of Zululand, University of Cape Town and University of South Africa. Second,
there will be a number filed trips, cultural excursions,
interviews and informal meetings in Johannesburg,
Cape Town, Pretoria, Alice, Durban, and Zululand.
The program will be evaluated at regular intervals in South Africa. Overall assessment of the program
the United States will involve internal and external
evaluation as well as qualitative and quantitative
measurements. Participants will develop curriculum
units, global education projects and several papers,
which will be disseminated widely.
For
more information on this project, please contact
Carlos Wilson at 601-432-6121 or email carlos.d.wilson@jsums.edu.
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