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The Heart of Experience: The Education of a Practitioner\u27s Journey
Get PDFThis Capstone, The Heart of Experience: The Education of a Practitioner’s Journey, is an illustrative reflection of myself experiencing my learning cycle, taking the reader through my own journey of growth as an experiential education practitioner. To engage the reader, I first shine light on the context of what role experience played in my life as a form of education, specifically reflecting on my time living abroad in China and my cross-cultural work with Chinese youth in Manhattan, New York, emphasizing basketball’s involvement as a tool for engagement. I describe how such experiences helped me return to school. To portray my education at SIT Graduate Institute, I reflect on my application of David A. Kolb’s experiential learning theory and learning styles, bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy, social justice education, and facilitation roles while founding the student-centered poetry club A Nook for Rhyme Crooks. Through Paulo Freire’s teachings, my analytical reflection of my educational journey transforms into a newfound purpose of using alternative methods to educate the upcoming Chinese youth. I deepen my education further by choosing to work as the Global Leadership and Engagement Program Director for an organization called VIA: Volunteers in Asia during my practicum phase, continuing to operate within the East Asian-United States cross-cultural youth development demographic and implementing creative expression into the experiential learning cycle. Through reflection and analysis of my practicum experience, a reformation of biases result in a new realization about Chinese youth engagement and interest, culminating into a revelation regarding the education of basketball as experiential learning. I draw on philosophies of basketball particularly John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and his peers to parallel experiential learning theory to support its substance with intellectual underpinnings that align with my own morals and beliefs of what I feel successful education is to be. To conclude, I present an original program design called Heart of Basketball: Leadership, Teamwork, and the Pursuit of Success, which is the manifestation of myself as a half-Chinese experiential education practitioner, what my life experiences have taught me, and what I believe to be the most impactful way to successfully cultivate experiential education for Chinese youth. This capstone serves as the final product of my landings as an experiential education practitioner, the fulfillment of my own learning cycle, and the ensuing segue into the next cycle of my transformation
Reich Scholar Program: A Scholarship and Leadership Training Program for International Students with Disabilities at Dartmouth College
Get PDFNational level and international policy changes have emerged to promote educational opportunity for children with disabilities. A gap remains in US higher education in providing access and support for international students with disabilities. Areas of need for this student demographic include financial access, availability of assistive technology, specific socio-cultural advising to living in the US with a disability, comprehensive immigration advising and career support for entering the workforce with a disability. Staff support is generally siloed in colleges. International student services and disability or accessibility services often work in isolation. This capstone imagines the pilot year of a scholarship and leadership training program at Dartmouth College, called the Reich Scholar Program. The pilot year will begin to address the needs of international students with disabilities, empower them with skills to successfully navigate college in the United States, and prepare them for a self-directed personal and professional life following their undergraduate studies. This program will equip staff with a stronger understanding of disability rights and accessibility through their participation in monitoring, evaluation and select program activities. The program vision is to create a campus culture that is more inclusive and empowering to people of all differently-abled identities
Transforming Language: Nonviolent Communication in Educational Settings
No full textNon-violent communication is a four-step process that consistently yields incredible results. This useful tool can benefit every individual, especially educators. This presentation and workshop will help you transform the way you communicate with your students, as well as how you teach your students to communicate with the English language
Evaluation Framework for effective HIV/public health programming in Nigeria
Get PDFEvaluation is a buzzword in the field of development. How can one ensure the incorporation of effective monitoring and assessment framework in HIV/AIDS and public health programming that will impact positively on the reproductive health of young adults in Nigeria? In most public corporations in Nigeria, there is hardly any conscious effort on the part of the government to conduct either process evaluation or impact assessment on various government projects and policy, especially on HIV/public health programming. This course-linked capstone thematically illustrated the current state of the problem by providing in-depth analysis of the degree of HIV impact on the affected population, and the effort put in place by the government. I reviewed available publications and journals to consider expert opinion on the issue. The paper accessed relevant frameworks and proposed a tripartite approach, (Ensuring Effective Collaboration) aimed at making sure the government established a collaboration and linkage with social enterprises and Nongovernment organization to stem the incidence of HIV. Finally, the learning reflected the process and transformation of the proposed model into a valuable and viable tool. This paper proposed recommendations for the Nigerian government on the need to address the scourge of HIV as it affects the reproductive health of the young adult
No a la Tala: Percepciones sobre Reforestación en Cochabamba, Bolivia / No to La Tala: Perforations on Reforestation in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Get PDFEn mi corto estudio quisiera explorar las percepciones sobre reforestación urbana y los espacios verdes en la ciudad de Cochabamba con la pregunta “¿Cuáles son las percepciones de la reforestación en Cochabamba?” Para ello, llevé a cabo entrevistas y encuestas breves con varios grupos directamente involucrados en movimientos de reforestación para recolectar percepciones sobre este tema. Los participantes eran parte de grupos como No a la Tala de los Árboles en Cochabamba, La ONG Gaia Pacha, el Departamento de Medio Ambiente del municipio de Cochabamba, y expertos ambientales. Finalmente, creé un mapa de cuentos en línea que consiste de fotografías y citas de los participantes en la ubicación exacta donde hablaron. Los resultados de mi estudio corto varían enormemente, pero hay un consenso entre todas las entidades en que la educación es la vía que se debe seguir en el esfuerzo para reforestar Cochabamba.
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In my short study I wanted to explore urban reforestation and green spaces with question “What are the perceptions of reforestation in Cochabamba?” I conducted interviews and short surveys with various groups directly involved in reforestation movements in order to collect perception about this topic. The participants were part of groups like No to the Logging of Trees in Cochabamba, the NGO Gaia Pacha, the municipal department of the the environment, and environmental experts. Finally I created an online story map that consists of photographs and quotes from participants in the exact location where we spoke. The results of my study vary enormously, but there is a consensus among all entities that education is the way forward in the effort to reforest Cochabamba
Developed Toast, Modern Laundry: Nepali Household Appliance Discourses
Get PDFThis project investigates discourses of modernity, globalization, class identity, and social change in Kathmandu, Nepal, through the lens of ten Nepali women’s purchase and usage of home appliances. Four weeks of ethnographic research sought to identify prevailing practices and attitudes toward household appliances in the city, situating them in broader discourses of globalization, modernity, class identity, and social change. The project is composed of participant observation in Nepali homes, including informal interviews, with project participants sourced from my own social network. My collaborators’ practices and opinions on appliances engage discourses of the developmentalist and modernizing South Asian state, fluid and shifting markers of class identity in the postmodern, globalizing developing world, and the ways in which western and nonwestern public performativity surrounding appliances interacts in the globalized, time-space compressed 21st Century to create a conflicting and contrasting public and private culture of consumption and commodities
Here There Be Herders: Comparative Archaeological Survey of Bronze Age Monumental Landscapes
Get PDFWithin our global understanding of the human story, nomadic pastoralists are often featured as marginal, or at best ancillary, to a narrative on sedentary civilizations of increasing complexity. Research on these groups has been limited by this conception, and by a minimal signature in the archeological record. However, revolutionary technological and methodological advances in the field have allowed for increased complexity in current research on the emergence of pastoralists in antiquity. As a region with an extensive nomadic pastoral history, and as a nation reviving its interest in the past, Mongolia is ideal for such studies. However, for large swaths of the country, we can only fathom at the intricacies of the archeological record, a record that is endangered by the proliferation of legal and illicit mining operations, infrastructural development, and looting.
This project addresses gaps in our understanding of the Mongolian past through archeological surface survey at Shatar Chuluu, Biiriin Khundii, and Khar Sairiin Am: three Bronze Age sites lying at the southern limits of the Khangai Mountains. Using aerial photography to expedite site mapping, the project adds to a regional and local comprehension of monumentality as it emerges in the Mongolian Bronze Age. This information reveals a monumental landscape that conceptually emphasizes deer stones as territorial, burial monuments as local and locative, and khirigsuur stone mound complexes as communal displays of social stability. The form and function of these lasting remains form distinctive patterns of monumentality within the region
Barriers to the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technology in Mongolia Lee, Madeline Academic Director: Sanjaasuren, Ulziijargal Claremont McKenna College International Relations Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, Salkhit, Hatgal Nomadism, Geopolitics, and the Environment SIT Study Abroad Spring
Get PDFAs the international community looks promote sustainable development in developing countries, many policies have focused on the introduction of renewable energy technology (RET). For Mongolia specifically, RET is both a viable and optimal option, considering the country’s vast natural resources and the unsustainability of the country’s existing energy system. However, Mongolia has faced challenges with the development of its RET sector and still largely relies on international assistance and funding to develop largescale projects.
This study analyzes the barriers that Mongolia faces to the effective diffusion of RET into Mongolian society. Over the course of four weeks, 10 individuals were interviewed and 94 individuals were surveyed on their opinions of the energy sector and renewable energy technologies in Mongolia. Interviews and surveys were conducted and distributed in various localities within Mongolia, including Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, Salkhit, and Hatgal. Results indicate a large gap between the level of public involvement with renewable energy and the government’s goals for Mongolia’s renewable energy sector. This gap is largely due to insufficient public education regarding renewable energy. While the government of Mongolia is partially responsible for the public’s lack of awareness, data collected indicate that the government of Mongolia is not adequately equipped with sufficient institutional knowledge to educate the public.
Thus, international actors able to assist developing countries with the implementation of renewable energy technology must ensure that any assistance is all-encompassing and contributes to the establishment of sustainable systems within developing countries, rather than promoting short-term programs that fail to fully initiate a societal shift towards the use of renewable energy. This is especially important in Mongolia, where barriers to the diffusion of renewable energy technology can be overcome with additional international guidance and successful technological transfer
An Analysis of Positive Coping Mechanisms Utilized to Overcome Trauma in Post-Genocidal Rwanda
Get PDFFrom April 7th to July 1st of 1994, one million Rwandan people were brutally murdered by their friends and neighbors in the meticulously planned and government-sponsored Genocide against the Tutsi. Survivors witnessed killings and sexual assault, had their lives threatened, lost multiple family members, and hid under dead bodies to evade the killers. To make matters worse, trust within communities and even within families was destroyed as Hutu perpetrators turned against Tutsis they had, days earlier, been inviting to family events. After the genocide, PTSD rates among adults in Rwanda were estimated at 20.5% for men and 30% for women (Munyandamutsa). Due to the violence, infrastructure throughout Rwanda was decimated, leaving their only psychiatric hospital abandoned and a meager 3 professional psychological support staff in the country. This report discusses four categories of coping mechanisms utilized by Rwandans to cope with post-genocide trauma: problem-focused strategies, emotion-focused strategies, avoidance strategies, and faith-based strategies. It then analyzes 9 personal interviews with Kigali-based psychological support organizations and 85 testimonies from Rwandans who experienced genocide for methods they either recommend or personally used to positively cope with genocide-inflicted trauma. The study shows that emotion-focused and faith-based coping strategies are the most utilized. While the results of this study cannot be generalized outside of a Rwandan context, these findings may suggest that internalized coping mechanisms are more applicable in trauma cases of atypical occurrence or magnitude
On the Road to Bliss (Discoveries in Tesol)
No full textMy goal in TESOL is to produce opportunities for students to integrate their entire fount of language and cultural knowledge into their language learning. And then to take ownership of the power it bestows to change the world