In the summers of 2010 and 2011, students have gone to Tanzania, East Africa
on the course Education and Development.
from http://wheatoncollege.edu
What do
students do?
Who
teaches the course?
How
do I apply?
What have
students done in the course?
The course explores the considerable challenges facing countries throughout
sub-Saharan Africa.
Tanzania, one of the poorest countries on the continent, has a long history
of trying to engineer development through educational change.
Students are introduced to this rich history from the pre-colonial period to
the present which includes: a look at traditional education systems in several
of the 120 different cultures of Tanzania; the introduction of mission and
colonial schools; ujamaa socialist education models in the 1960s-80s; and
current attempts to make secondary school a universal right for all
children.
The program begins in the Northern International city of Arusha with its many
museums, international war crimes tribunal court, and thriving markets to
Kilimanjaro regional capital city Moshi town for a week of lectures and site
visits to schools, coffee cooperatives, local industries, hospitals, and
development projects. We then head for our base on Mount Kilimanjaro, a
cultural heritage site and the only snow-capped mountain that straddles the
equator. Our home for two weeks is Rongai, a town located in national forest
conservation territory.
The course is run like an intensive ethnographic field school. Students
receive one Wheaton course credit. The course fulfills an Anthropology area
elective requirement or can be substituted for the Anthropology 302 Methods
requirement. It also carries at BW designation.
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