Intercultural Work "Intercultural empathy, viewed as a human capacity that can be cultivated, might provide the seeds for positive social change in the context of racial/ethnic discrimination, unequal access to resources, and assymetrical power relationships that result in inequality and unfairness." (Brantmeier, p 70) Excerpt from Transforming Education for Peace ******************************************************************************************************************** Fulbright Program The Fulbright Program was established to promote mutual understanding and international friendship among people, insitutions, and nations. I have been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Lecturing Award Grant in Peace Studies. I will be traveling to Varanasi, India to collaborate with colleagues at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research and guest lecture at Benaras Hindu University. ******************************************************************* Curriculum Development in India
The Globe Foundation created an internship in 2004 that allowed graduate students in the field of education to travel to Bangalore, India to participate in a unique partnership with the Globe Foundation and Christel House India Learning Center. Three PhD candidates from Indiana University's School of Education were selected. While in India the interns were assigned to Christel House India Learning Center to observe the educational processes and develop an online curriculum based on their observations of the students and teachers.
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Cross-Cultural Immersion
Experiential learning in the context of the "other" provides "self" insight and promotes multicultural competence. Cultural Immersion Projects at Indiana University is a model for doing guided, reflective, cross-cultural immersion experiences. I completed my student teaching in the Navajo Nation through this project in 1997. Later, from 2000-2003, I served as an Associate Instructor, guiding other students through cultural immersion experiences in the Navajo Nation as well as thirteen countries around the world.
A link to this program can be found below.
Cross-cultural Teaching and Learning Experiences via Cultural Immersion Projects, Indiana University
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