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Radical Spaces of Possibility: One Teacher\u27s Journey from Banking Education to Student-Driven Learning in a Middle School World Language Classroom
No full textThis Course-Linked Capstone is a reflective analysis of one teacher’s journey leading up to and working as an Exploratory French Instructor at Brattleboro Area Middle School during the 2015-2016 academic school year. It discusses her background as an educator in alternative learning environments as well as the conceptual frameworks studied in SIT Training courses that became, through the development of personal guiding principles, the foundation of her educational practice. Case study examples from her practicum illustrate how these frameworks and principles influenced her and the students’ experiences of transitioning from a banking form of education to student-centered learning. In conclusion, this paper provides an overview of lessons learned, where progress can be made, and presents insight for practitioners seeking to transform their classrooms into what bell hooks termed “radical spaces of possibility.
A Cappella Bridge: Towards a More Reciprocal Arts-Based Exchange
Get PDFA Cappella Bridge is a short-term, non-credit, arts-based exchange program for collegiate a cappella groups from the United States. This program proposal is the result of an extensive needs analysis that includes interviews with Education Abroad professionals and the founder of the Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA), a national nonprofit organization representing nearly 3,000 a cappella groups in the United States. The program’s design is meant to address a profound need for more reciprocal arts-based exchange programs open to highly skilled amateur artists and musicians. With a firm grounding in experiential learning and the seven-continuum transmission model for music education (Schippers, 2005), the theoretical foundations grounding A Cappella Bridge move this program far beyond a traditional international tour. This proposal lays out the design for a pilot trip to the Dominican Republic and identifies the DREAM Project, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization committed to education and the arts, as the program’s in-country sponsor
Incorporating Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) into Study Abroad Courses: A Training Design
Get PDFCollaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is known as an innovative, cost-effective instructional method that promotes intercultural learning through online collaboration between faculty and students residing in different countries or locations within the context of a course. Two international faculty teaching courses in different locations typically partner to co-facilitate online collaborative activities, such as assignments, projects, presentations and discussions, between their students. COIL continues to grow as an important intercultural instruction tool in higher education as U.S. universities, and universities around the world, work to internationalize their campuses and curricula, as well as increase access to intercultural learning. At the same time, study abroad is highly valued as part of curriculum internationalization strategies, and as an intercultural, experiential and comparative learning tool. This training design outlines a model for training onsite study abroad faculty on incorporating COIL activities into undergraduate study abroad courses as a way to enrich the intercultural and comparative learning of study abroad students. Based on adult learning theory, experiential education and input from onsite administrators and faculty, the training is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary COIL partnerships among faculty participants and guide them through the COIL activity design process
SIT Graduate Institute: Moving SIT Towards a Model of Inclusive Excellence in Diversity
Get PDFThe Inclusive Excellence Model has been used by college diversity offices all across the United States to help streamline diversity policy and foster a more inclusive collegial environment for students, staff, and faculty. It is now time for SIT Graduate Institute to benefit from this model. SIT has a long and rich history of diversity and inclusion work. However, much of that history has been lost or stored away in long-forgotten archives. Also, much of this memory has never been analyzed in a way that increases institutional wisdom. This study takes on the challenge of analyzing SIT’s institutional memory on diversity using the four core elements of the Inclusive Excellence Model with the purpose of creating a solid institutional narrative that helps guide SIT towards stronger inclusive practices. The evidence in this study makes a strong case for the utilization of the Inclusive Excellence Model in institutions of higher learning
Mediation in the Mediterranean: Italy as a Crucible for Immigration and Intercultural Mediation
Get PDFEurope is again in an intense state of migration influx. While some European countries have historical precedence for these types of population shifts, Italy has largely remained outside the modern phenomenon, since it did not experience the economic boom of post WW2 and the subsequent demand for migrant workers, nor did it experience the pull effect of language migrants after the decolonization of Africa. Italy therefore also missed the second surge of migration during the 70’s and 80’s when families of these immigrants began arriving in Europe. What Italy did experience throughout the 20th century, and continues to experience today, is the emigration of massive numbers of Italians due to economic instability and a lack of job creation. Italy is now witnessing a surge in immigration of asylum-seekers crossing the Mediterranean after the death of al-Gaddafi opened the Libyan border. Most of these migrants are moving from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, particularly after the Arab Spring and successive civil wars. Their journey through the Sahara and Libya can take months or years and is often filled with abuse and torture. When migrants finally arrive to Italy, they are in need of services, such as psychotherapy treatment for trauma, but the rapid rate at which they are arriving and the sheer numbers make it difficult for Italians to meet these needs. The absence of effective language teaching is also a serious issue, as there has been little demand for teaching Italian to speakers of other languages before now. New agents for social change, people known as Intercultural Mediators, are providing not only linguistic intervention, but also orientation and psychosocial support. Intercultural Mediators bridge communication between Italians and immigrants as well as create space for new cultures to emerge. Despite the progress being made with the help of Intercultural Mediation, unemployment remains a constant threat to peace and integration. For this reason, the author includes a business proposal presenting “integration through job creation” in Socrates, a sock company where immigrants and Italians learn from one another in a collaborative environment of raising sheep and producing wool socks
Bridge To Her Education (BTHERE): Black Girls and the School to Prison Pipeline
Get PDFThe purpose of this capstone paper is to create a citizen centered advocacy strategy plan, which will be launched through the Girls Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), in order to at the very least, slow the school to prison pipeline. It refers specifically to the zero tolerance policy, which has intensified the movement of Black girls into the pipeline. After reviewing the literature, it was evident that the zero tolerance policy in combination with historical gender and race stereotypes surrounding Black girls, had resulted in implicit bias as a motivational factor in the way Black girls are being punished. Furthermore, there are various socioeconomic issues that affects Blacks girls’ gendered racialized identity that are usually overlooked when addressing Black girls’ behavior.
However, the lack of research on the zero tolerance policy and the school to prison pipeline that accounts for gender, would have one think that Black girls are not subjected to the same pressures to which their Black male counterparts are subjected. The question then arises, what can be done to assist Black girls? In response to this question, I present the Bridge To Her Education (BTHERE) policy and a Girl Scouts of the USA’s led advocacy campaign. The BTHERE policy counters the most harmful points of the zero tolerance policy as it relates to Black girls. The project also present a strategy plan and communications memo to guide GSUSA in their launch of the BTHERE policy
La Lengua de Señas: Potencial y Poder en la Transición de un Enfoque Médico a la Perspectiva Socio-Antropológica de Niños Sordos / Sign Language: Potency and Power in the Transition from a Medical Approach to the Socio-Anthropological Perspective of Deaf Children
No full textLa Escuela Especial Santiago Apóstol ha hecho una transición de una escuela oralista a una escuela bilingüe. Eso es decir, que han cambiado su perspectiva que los Niños Sordos deben hablar, que hay un déficit en niños Sordos, al punto de vista de que tienen su propia cultura y una propia lengua, la Lengua de Señas. Este ensayo explora la perspectiva médica, en lo cual están basadas las escuelas oralistas, y la mirada socio-antropológico, de que nació la escuela bilingüe. El autor entrevistó a la directora y a un grupo de madres que tienen hijos en la escuela. También, él asistió a clases de señas ofrecido por la escuela a los padres. El narrativo del ensayo viaja entre la experiencia de estar en la clase y las entrevistas.
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Santiago Apóstol Special School has made a transition from an oral school to a bilingual school. That is to say, they have changed their perspective that Deaf Children should speak, that there is a deficit in Deaf children, to the point of view that they have their own culture and their own language, Sign Language. This essay explores the medical perspective, on which the oralist schools are based, and the socio-anthropological view that the bilingual school was born. The author interviewed the director and a group of mothers who have children at school. Also, he attended sign-up classes offered by the school to the parents. The narrative of the essay travels between the experience of being in class and the interviews
Re-Imagining the Theatre: Existence and Change
Get PDFWith acknowledgement of Nicaraguan Theatre and its different dynamics, this research works to expose and create visibility of current Nicaraguan Theatre with relation to social change in Managua, Nicaragua. The microcosm of theatre is revolutionary in creating the necessary change to reach a state of consciousness that allows others to accept and understand society and others for what they are and what they can be. The theater is simply a tool. Intrinsically, all acts are political, therefore the theater is a political declaration. The theater is, and always will be, a political arena, when the aesthetics of the theater are continuously transforming.
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Con el reconocimiento del Teatro Nicaragüense y sus diferentes dinámicas, esta investigación trabaja para exponer y crear visibilidad al Teatro Nicaragüense actual en relación con el cambio social en Managua, Nicaragua. Los microcosmos del teatro son revolucionarios a crear el cambio necesario para alcanzar un estado de conciencia que permite a los demás aceptar y comprender a la sociedad y los demás por lo que son y lo que pueden ser. El teatro es simplemente una herramienta. Intrínsecamente, todos los actos son políticos, por lo tanto, el teatro es una declaración política. El teatro es, y siempre será, una arena política, ya que la estética del teatro se transforma continuamente
The Personal as the Political: The Everyday Resistance of LGBTQ+ WOC in the Netherlands
Get PDFThe Netherlands is often a country characterized by tolerance and inclusion, especially in regards to sexual diversity. Having legalized same sex marriage in 2001, one of the first in the world to do so, the Netherlands has secured its spot on the map as one of the top “gay friendly” countries. However, upon further examination, we find that tolerance within the Netherlands is not all that it seems. Many scholars and activists argue that Dutch tolerance, rather than a strive for LGBTQ+ equality, is a guise to perpetuate racism and xenophobic political agendas. Such a debate necessitates an understanding of the ways in which the semantical power of “progressive values” in seeming support of the gay community serves to consolidate ‘the Dutch citizen’ and exclude all those who fall outside the bounds of such citizenship standards. As both a social exclusionary tool and legal apparatus, citizenship exists as a way to reify the citizen subject, and all its subsequent values, as white and male. The consequences of such rhetoric is that many members of LGBTQ+ community who fail to gain access into the sphere of Dutch citizenship face mounting discrimination that is too often disregarded. One such group is LGBTQ+ women of color, a demographic that is contending with, at minimum, the amalgamation of racism, sexism, and homophobia. This paper seeks to explore the experiences of LGBTQ WOC in the ‘tolerant’ Netherlands and more specifically, the resistance methods they employ within this space. Utilizing the analytical frameworks of resistance theory, I am relying on data collected from my participant interviews with LGBTQ+ WOC in the Netherlands and the stories that they gave to me outside of the formal interview. As a means of contextualizing the forces my participants experience, the first portion of my literature review will explore the topics of homonationalism, Dutch tolerance, and racism in the Netherlands. Following such background, I will then examine scholarship surrounding resistance to help frame my participant’s narratives. Lastly, as a lens for my research methodology, I will delve into women of color feminist theories surrounding the role of women of color in knowledge production. 1.2 Aims and Motivations of Researc
Shaping our World for a Better Tomorrow: Sustainable Investing, ESG, and Industry Insight
Get PDFSustainable investing is a relatively new field in the world of finance and banking. Even though there is tremendous growth in sustainable investments over the past few years, it is still a niche market that requires more transparency, standards, and incentives. Switzerland has become one of the leading countries for sustainable finance, exhibiting a growth in sustainable investments under management. Despite the vast amount of research and development on sustainable investing, there is still much confusion and negative perception in the professional banking world about the topic. This study is designed to fill the gap between the academic rhetoric behind sustainable investing and its current state in the professional field, while also analyzing different tools and strategies of sustainable finance. The paper also explores how the industry can make the shift from traditional to sustainable investing with recommendations relating to ESG integration. The research activity indicates that even with a substantial growth in the field of sustainable finance, there is a long road ahead of the banking industry and global financial market to create environmental and social positives while also generating profit