Our
International
Travel Component
2005-06 Reconciliation program will be organized completeley around
students' individual interests. Let
your faculty team know your own set of
learning objectives for the entire year, your answer to the 4
questions. Participating in the Reconciliation program is different
than signing a contract because besides
studying what you are interested in, you become a member of a
learning community and attendance is by invitation. Some 15 students
will travel to Peru in the
Winter 2006. The travel preparation module in the Fall 2005 will be
organized by participating students. In Peru there will be very minimum
group activities, most activities will follow students own interests
(based on students proposals made during the
preparation period and which will in fact be individual contracts!).
The program in Peru will follow these guidelines.
General
objectives
-Become
a member of a rural community in Perú.
-Learn
about Peruvian culture and History by actively using local
resources and experiencing life in a community.
-Establish
friendships and bridge communication between cultures.
-Learn/improve
your knowledge of Spanish language and use your
second language to experience life in Perú.
-Use
your knowledge and skills to do community work mainly at
local schools or community institutions.
-Learn to lead (or about leading) without being a missionary, a
developer
or a liberator.
Connecting
theory to practice
-It
is an opportunity to experience community life in a real
functioning community.
-It
is an opportunity to live within populations affected by
political decisions in advanced countries, to talk, think, and learn
about
it.
-If
your intention is to learn the language and culture of minority
populations in Latin America, this could be a great introduction to
your
future plans.
-It
is your chance to connect all you have learned theoretically
about international politics/economics or multicultural issues with
real
life.
-It is a unique opportunity for prospective teachers to experience an
immersion process to learn a foreign language and apply brain-based
pedagogy.
Program
demands
Most Evergreen
sophomore
students have already learned to be responsible for their own education
and
are ready to study under the Independent Learning Contract model (
your own set of
learning objectives for the entire year). Each
contract
is designed according to each student's specific needs and interests,
the
extent and depth of the curriculum and most of the instruction is
driven
by the student self motivation and the assessment is an embedded part
of
everyday activities. Each participant will build an email journal to
document their learning.
Participants
will base their educational experience
on Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ciro Alegria's Broad and
Alien is the World, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of
Solitude.
Extra readings include: The Pakatnamu Papers, The Royal Commentaries of
the Incas, Bartolome de las Casas, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The
Daughters of the Conquistadors, The Seven Essays of the Peruvian
Reality, Mario Vargas Llosa, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Galiano and
students own lists of materials.
These self-learners then have the
opportunity
to experience/arrange:
-Real
use of Spanish as your second language. Your classroom is the
whole
community.
-Become part of a family, through them become a member of the community
and as such
experience life in rural Perú. During the first five weeks and
for those students who need it, there is a program described below.
There are other possible arrangements according to
circumstances.
-Learn
Spanish using a constructivist approach, some % self instruction and
most
% student-centered active learning and community time.
-If your knowledge of Spanish is
limited
and you are willing to teach English teaming with local teachers, you
wil
be offered this opportunity. Other volunteer community work involve
teaching
your hobby or anything you feel eager to share with the local
community,
activities at the hospital and local institutions (youth organizations,
sports
entities, local government projects, etc.)
-Socratic dialogue and pedagogy of the oppressed at the praxis level.
| Approximate Costs for 5 weeks (TESC tuition fees not included) | High season | Low season |
| International air
fare (US-Lima Peru, round trip)* The Seatac-Lima trips could
be arranged as a group. This portion of the program starts with the Winter 2006 quarter dates: begins January 04-14, ends March 14-24. Students could arrive in small groups or individually, the five week starts when they arrive. |
1000.00 | 650.00 |
| +Air
fare (Lima-Trujillo or Lima-Chiclayo, one way ticket plus taxi from/to
airport
and night stay in Lima). Deposit for this needs to be arranged in mid
December, we may work this out via
Evergreen account. |
120.00 | 120.00 |
| Room
and board (5 weeks: 3 meals a day plus social events and
arrangements) Deposit will be made in account TBA |
500.00 | 500.00 |
| Local
transportation and visits to different sites around the area. |
100.00 | 100.00 |
| Conversational Spanish (money to spend with local schools, youth clubs, organizations/friends/neighbours)** | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Community
Work Administration (donation you directly make to organizations in
town). |
100.00 | 100.00 |
| Hotel (Lima, Cajamarca or Trujillo if you travel to stay overnight) | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Approximate
total costs for a five week experience including international air fare |
2020.00 | 1670.00 |
| (*)Seatac-Lima Round trip fare could be
as high
as $1100 or
as
low as $595 depending on the turist season. Less expensive flights
arrive
in Lima at midnight. (+)For safety reasons someone will wait for you at the Lima airport, take you home and take you back to the airport to continue your trip to Chiclayo. This person will buy your air ticket to Chiclayo also. In Chiclayo someone else will wait for you and then travel with you to Guadalupe. After week five you will be able to make your own arrangements to travel by yourself or with your new friends; or to stay in town for the rest of the quarter (many students end up staying in town and use it as her base to travel to other parts of the country). |
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| Approximate cost per quarter
(International
RT air fare + local transportation + room and board + short visits +
program administration + local travel) (ten weeks staying in this same
area of Peru) WARNING: 1. if you decide to change return dates the airline might ask for a penalty fee. 2. if you plan to visit the Peruvian Amazon area it is safer to have yellow fever and malaria protection. Health: READ PLEASE 3. there are areas declared unsafe by the US State Department, read the travel advisory. 4. TESC Business Office has set up budget # (TBA) for the Peru studies abroad program. Students need to deposit their $150 to this account (the latest is week six Fall Quarter). Also 120 for Lima-Chiclayo air fare (2 weeks before trip) and overnight stay and 500 for 5 weeks of room and board (the latest is January 4th.) |
2500.00 |
2150.00 |
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