## U.S. Department of Education

## Office of Postsecondary Education

## International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office

# Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program

# CFDA 84.021A

# Short-Term Project Abstracts

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# GPA-Short Term Grant Awards List

# Fiscal Year 2014

# GPA FY 2014 Grant Awards List

# P021A140031 - University of Pennsylvania—South Africa 

From Apartheid to Reconciliation: Perspectives on the History and Cultural Diversity of South Africa 

Institution: University of Pennsylvania 

Project Director: Dr. Audrey N. Mbeje 

Africa Center 

648 Williams Hall 

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 

Telephone:  215.898.4299 

E-mail: mbeje@sas.upenn.edu

CFDA 84.021 Project Type 2: Curriculum Development 

Participants: 14, plus Project Director (secondary and postsecondary school educators, curriculum specialists, and administrators) 

Abstract: The University of Pennsylvania Africa Center proposes a Fulbright-Hays Group 

Project Abroad (GPA) to take fourteen educators from the Greater Philadelphia Area (Camden New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Wilmington, Delaware) to South Africa for curriculum development. Building on Penn’s extensive resources on Africa as a National Resource Center (NRC), the project will offer a rich experiential learning opportunity that will enable participants to explore first-hand the history and culture of South Africa for integration in their classrooms back in the United States. 

The project will be based in Durban, in affiliation with Durban University of Technology (DUT) and Chatsworth Teachers Center (CTC) and will benefit from the unique strengths of these two institutions, which will provide access to high-quality academic and professional resources. Complementing classroom lecture seminars will be educational tours to sites in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Cape Provinces where participants will experience South Africa through the uniquely distinct historical and cultural features of these three provinces. 

The goals of this project are to: 

1. To increase linguistic and cultural competency among secondary and post-secondary school educators and administrators involved in Africa Area Studies. Participants will receive substantive standards-based Zulu language and culture instruction for fifteen hours a week to develop linguistic and cultural competency in the language. The target proficiency goal will be at least level 1+ ceiling on the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Proficiency Scale. 

2. Enhance the quality and relevance of Africa Area studies instructional materials for middle-high and post-secondary schools. Through lecture seminars, discussions and site visits, participants will assemble knowledge to use in creating 18 instructional modules (12 for secondary schools and six for postsecondary schools) for dissemination nationwide. To ensure efficiency, effectiveness and quality outcomes, we will employ rigorous evaluation systems to continuously improve implementation, maintenance and the sustainability of our fundamental objectives. We will conduct proficiency exams, pre-and post-departure surveys. 

The project focuses on sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa), offers training in a priority language (Zulu), and at least 71 percent (10 out of 14) of the participants will be from K-12 schools (secondary level), thus meeting all three FY 2014 Competitive Preference Priorities I, II, and III, respectively. The project also fulfills the FY 2014 Invitational Priority as it collaborating with the School District of Philadelphia, Community College of Philadelphia, and Cheyney University, which are Minority Serving Institutions. 

# P021A140024 - Arizona State University - Ghana

“Stories from the Other Side” Arizona State University 

CFDA 84.021A Project Type 2: GPA Curriculum Development Project 

Project Director - Akua Duku Anokye, aanokye@asu.edu,  602.543.6020 

The New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (New College) at Arizona State University (ASU) West Campus, houses the Schools of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, and the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. New College, in collaboration with the Phoenix Union High School District (PUHSD) requests a grant in the amount of $96,065 from the U.S. Department of Education’s 2014 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program to support Stories from the Other Side: A Curriculum Development Project for University Pre-service and In-Service Educators. 

The GPA project will allow three New College faculty (including the Project Director), three ASU pre-service graduate students, one PUHSD Administrator, and six K-12 teachers to travel to Ghana to conduct research on Ghanaian culture, art, history, and social justice, generating new interdisciplinary multicultural curriculum for classroom, district, and statewide dissemination. 

Key Objectives: 1) establish a team of students and educators to conduct study and research on Akan language, culture, history, art, and education; 2) create new interdisciplinary curricular products (i.e., course outlines, revised course content, learning modules/lecture content, on-line resources, and theme-based course offerings) that will expand multicultural-based curriculum in K-12 schools in Arizona and the university; 3) disseminate new interdisciplinary curricular products to K-12 schools state-wide; 4) introduce Akan Twi to K-12 in-service, pre-service and University educators; 5) conduct service projects with Ghanaian schools; 6) establish on-going, online resources for collaboration between American and Ghanaian educators and students engaging in cross-cultural understandings; and 7) introduce educators to ethnographic interview techniques. 

The project objectives support Arizona State University’s profile as the New American University emphasizing scaling local solutions for global impact, fostering local and international student experiences, and building diverse partnerships. The project will also complement New College’s on-going study abroad initiatives. 

The objectives will be accomplished through an intensive program consisting of: 

(a) Pre-departure Phase - Participants will complete background readings on Ghana and attend a three-full-day orientation program. 

(b) Overseas Phase - Four-week on-site experience consisting of lectures, performances, demonstrations, excursions, readings, language sessions, interactions with Ghanaian people, school visits, development of instructional modules, and acquisition of teaching materials. 

(c) Post-Seminar Phase - Activities consist of: completion of instructional modules; incorporation of Ghana-focused materials in participants’ courses/plans; monthly meetings during fall 2015 each participant sharing module(s) with the team; dissemination of modules to other schools and teachers via the PLL Web site; and presentation of the Ghana experience at professional meetings and workshops to disseminate material on Ghana to the wider academic communities. 

Each phase of the project will be evaluated to collect summative and/or formative data. Results will demonstrate strengths, weaknesses, and degree of success in accomplishing the above objectives. The proposed project addresses Absolute Priority I- Region- Ghana; Competitive Priority I Language-Akan-Twi; Competitive Priority III-at least 50 percent of participants K-12 teachers. 

# P021A140014 - Salisbury University - Ghana

The Mate Masie Initiative: 

Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (CFDA 84.021A, Project Type 2) 

Summer 2015 Initiative Abstract 

The title of this program, Mate Masie Initiative, has its origins in the Akan language of West Africa. The Akan phrase, Mate Masie, in translation means “I have heard (wisdom) and kept it.” It is our intention as participants in this project to take this pledge to heart and apply our new knowledge and experiences had in Ghana toward our student populations here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 

The project will allow for 12 educators and one Program Director from Salisbury University (SU) and Wicomico County to travel to Ghana, Africa, in the summer of 2015. The group will be comprised of six faculty members from SU, three English Language Arts and three STEM educators from the middle school level, and a program director. During the four weeks the group is there, it will undertake coursework in language, sociology, history, theatre and movement, and environmental studies, as taught by university professors and junior faculty from the University of Ghana at Legon campus. We will be housed and receive lectures and programs at INSRAT, the research, advocacy and training institute of Dr. Irene K. Odotei. 

Our group will travel over 800 miles, taking the cohort to locations such as the slave castles at Elmina and Cape Coast, and the craft villages of the Kumasi region. The group will travel to the country's hydroelectric dam, as well as to one of its rainforests and coastal regions. 

The cohort will meet with local officials, such as Queen mothers and Chiefs, to discuss the coexistence of tribal rule and elected government in the 21st century. Our group will also spend time at one of the Junior Secondary Schools in the region, to interact with the students, administrators and teachers at the middle school level. The coursework and other activities are intended to help each participant create new material for their own classes, new courses, units and lesson plans which will reflect the impact of the experiences had while in Ghana. In addition, we will work with a local well drilling company to install a well in a local village. The well especially, but also the Akosombo Dam and other destinations will be of a great interest to the science teachers within our cohort. 

Members of our cohort will be using the above mentioned experiences to inform the development of an approach to a civil rights theme that can include elements of Gold Coast/Ghana history, literature and culture. Their efforts promise to impact the 7th grade English Language Arts curriculum in this area over the entire county. 

Applicant institution: Salisbury University, Salisbury MD 

Project Director: Dr. James S. King, Assistant Professor of English Salisbury University 

1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, MD 21801; Telephone: 410.677.0154; E-mail: jsking@salisbury.edu

Project participants: Six university professors from Salisbury University, six educators from primary and middle schools in Wicomico County, Maryland

Project Addresses Competitive Priorities I, II, II 

# P021A140028 - The University of Pittsburgh - Tanzania

Name and Contact Information for Project Director: Dr. Macrina C. Lelei, Director, African Studies 

Program, University Center for International Studies, 

4138 WWPH, Pittsburgh PA, 15226 - Telephone: 412.648.2058; E-mail: macrina@pitt.edu

Project Type 1: Short-Term Seminar Project - GPA program in Tanzania summer 2015 

“East Africa: Swahili Language, Culture and Society” 

The African Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh proposes to offer a six-week, study abroad in Tanzania program under the short-term seminar project category. The project will provide pre-service students opportunities to travel to Tanzania to learn about East Africa, Swahili language and culture through classroom instruction, immersion in community activities and educational field trips. The project design uses a variety of pedagogical approaches that accommodate learner diversity, and integration of language and cross-culture learning, as well first hand experiential learning. The participants will increase understanding of the various aspects of society such as economic, cultural, political and environmental influences that will add to their personal growth and prepare them for their professional roles in global society. 

Fourteen students, graduate and undergraduate who are in their junior and senior years at the University of Pittsburgh and other institutions of higher education in Western Pennsylvania, training to become educators in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages and area studies will be selected to participate in the project scheduled to take place in summer (June-July) 2015. The training and thematic focus will be Swahili language learning, study of the changing and complex nature of culture, and its relationship to the society. This will include the history, the present situation, and competing visions for the future, as seen through the eyes of various cultural groups in East Africa. Experiential learning will occur as students engage with the local culture and experience the everyday reality of the people through various field activities such as visits to schools, health centers, interacting with civil society groups, visiting sites of historic and cultural significance, governmental and community based development organizations. 

Participants will have opportunities to listen to lectures on various topics presented by local experts, and ask questions while interacting with each other. Participants will also have opportunities for homestays with host country families for genuine immersion, language and cultural exchanges. 

The objectives of the project are to provide students with opportunities to: (1) Learn Swahili Language and immerse in the culture; (2) experience firsthand the society, and learn how to interact with the people in both casual and formal situations; (3) learn about the history of Africa in general and specifically that of Tanzania and East Africa; (4) acquire resources, knowledge and skills that they can apply in their classrooms when they begin their teaching; and (5) provide current, dynamic and interactive presentations to fellow students and to the wider community when they return to their home institutions. 

Since African cultures and institutions are part of the heritage of the American people as well as an important part of our world today, it is important that more students training to become teachers are well prepared to integrate the teaching and learning of Africa in the K-12 school curriculum. They will enhance their knowledge, perspectives, and develop an appreciation for Africa as well as help shape positive perceptions of Africa both in their academic and professional careers and in their everyday lives. 

The project consists of four distinct but related components: (1) Recruitment and selection of participants; (2) two week pre-departure orientation and seminar; (3) six week host-country study of language, culture and society; and (4) a project design sharing and dissemination phase. The project meets the absolute priority of the geographic region (Africa), the competitive preference priorities for specific geographic region of Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania), and substantive training and thematic focus on priority languages (Swahili). It also meets the competitive priority III, because the participants will be selected from pre-service students preparing to join the school system as K-12 teachers and administrators upon graduation from the university. 

# P021A140018 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro - China

Experiencing China: Designing Curriculum Activities for All Learners 

Applicant Institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) 

Project Type: Short-Term Seminar Project 

Project Participants: 12 K-12 teachers with the minimum of a Bachelor’s degree 

Project Director: Ye He (y_he@uncg.edu); 336.334.5878

1111 Spring Garden Street, Suite 2601, Room 2702 MHRA Building

Greensboro, NC;  United States 27412-5013

Competitive Priorities: Absolute Priority, Competitive Preference Priority II, Competitive Preference Priority III 

Project Description: The School of Education (SOE) and the School of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) at UNCG, in collaboration with Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) and the Essential Learning Group (ELG) propose to co-sponsor a four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program in China for elementary and secondary teachers and teacher educators from North Carolina. This proposed GPA program will include 12 participants with different expertise in K-12 area studies, with at least four K-12 special educators with American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) certification. They will be divided into four working teams with at least one special educator in each group. Participants will not only immerse themselves in Chinese culture and language learning through language classes, seminars, school visits, and cultural activities, but also collaborate with peer teacher educators and teachers in China to design curriculum activities to integrate Chinese culture and language instruction in K12 area studies. The special education teachers will offer their perspectives to ensure the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and differentiated instruction strategies are employed in the design of language and culture activities for all students, including those with special needs. 

Specifically, the proposed GPA program aims at: 1) enhancing participants’ knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and language; 2) developing participants’ intercultural competence and cross-cultural communication skills; 3) strengthening the collaboration between Chinese and US teacher educators and teacher candidates; 4) developing accessible curriculum activities to enrich the integration of Chinese culture and language instruction in K-12 area studies. 

The program will be operationalized in three phases. Phase I includes a semester-long three-credit course TED 506 – Institutes in Education with a focus on an overview of Chinese history, language, culture, and educational systems. This course serves as a pre-departure orientation for all participants. Additional learning opportunities will be provided for participants to develop Chinese language proficiency and interact with local students, teachers, and parents from China. Phase II entails a four-week intensive GPA program in China. The SHNU and ELG coordinators will assist with the arrangement of the language class, seminars, school visits, teacher collaborations in curriculum activity design, and other cultural site visits that enrich participants’ understanding of Chinese culture and language. Phase III allows participants to share their experiences and the curriculum activities they designed on the program website with other educators. They will also be prepared to lead in service staff development, facilitate class discussions, and present at local, regional, national, and international conferences regarding ways to enhance the internationalization of the K-12 curriculum. 

# P021A140038 – American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS - Russia

Summer Russian Language Teachers Program 

Project Director: Dr. Dan E. Davidson, President, American Councils for International 

Education: ACTR/ACCELS, 1828 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; Telephone: 202.833.7522 

Recent developments in Russia and Ukraine underscore the essential need for the U.S. educational system to train proficient speakers of Russian in order ensure our national capacity to effectively engage with the vital, complex region of Eurasia. A demonstrated leader in the design and administration of international academic exchanges and overseas cultural immersion programs, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS (American Councils) is pleased to submit this proposal to the U.S. Department of Education for Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad funding for the Summer Russian Language Teachers Program (F-H SLT) for FY 2014. Designed to strengthen the teaching of Russian at K-12 and post-secondary institutions throughout the United States, the program will support 12 fellows for a six-week program at the Russian State Pedagogical University (RSPU), Russia’s most renowned institution for the training of teachers since its creation in 1797. The F-H SLT Program will feature: 

• 80 hours of intensive language instruction designed to strengthen participants speaking, reading, and comprehension skills. 

• A specially designed course to guide participants in the design and development of comprehensive teaching portfolios comprising lesson plans, assignments, and activities based on authentic materials that will be introduced into their classrooms upon their return to the U.S. Portfolios will be reviewed by a Program Review Committee led by Dr. Dan E. Davidson, President of American Councils and Professor of Russian and Second Language Acquisition at Bryn Mawr College. 

• A series of seminars exploring Russian contemporary society, religion, music, and literature in order to provide participants new insights into the country’s past and present. 

• Weekly cultural excursions and an extended six-day trip to maximize participants’ exposure to key historical sights and provide additional opportunities to gather authentic teaching materials. 

• Housing with specially selected and closely monitored Russian host families, as well as weekly meetings with Russian peer tutors to maximize linguistic and cultural immersion. 

• Ongoing logistical support and emergency aid from an expert, full-time resident director. 

American Councils will conduct a national outreach campaign to encourage applicants from K-12 and postsecondary instructions throughout the U.S. Fellows will be selected by an external selection committee including at least one K-12 Russian language instructor. Participants will take part in a comprehensive pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC, and complete extensive pre- and post-program surveys and tests to measure their gains in linguistic skills and cultural understanding. 

American Councils has administered high-impact study abroad programs focused on linguistic and cultural learning for U.S. undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and teachers since 1976. More than 6,000 U.S. participants have joined its programs in Africa, Central Asia, China, India, the Middle East, Russia, and the South Caucasus. Since its inception, American Councils (originally the American Council of Teachers of Russian) has played a leading role in the support of Russian language studies in K-12 and post-secondary institutions. The F-H SLT Program fulfills the competitive preference priorities by taking place in Eurasia, providing training in a priority language (Russian), and including K-12 educators. American Councils requests $105,200 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education for the 18-month project period (September 1, 2014 – March 31, 2016). 

# P021A140004 - Hobart & William Smith Colleges – Russia

**Siberian Culture in the Golden Altai**

**Project Director (PD): David Galloway**

300 Pulteney Street

Geneva, New York, 14456-3304

315.781.3754

Faculty members of Hobart & William Smith Colleges (HWS) and the Altai State Pedagogical Academy (ASPA) propose a five-week seminar for fifteen participants in the Altai region of south-central Russia. Based in the city of Barnaul, this seminar will foster interdisciplinary learning and teaching in Russian area studies by immersing participants in the language, culture, and contemporary issues of Siberia. Participants will complete language training appropriate to their level, from beginning to advanced, as well as coursework in English on cultural studies of the Altai. We will seek participants from two groups: college students studying Russian in their junior year or later, and K-12 teachers in the upstate New York region who can apply the experience to their current or future curricula. 

Siberia and the Russian Far East constitute some 75 percent of Russian territory and contain the majority of the country’s natural resources. It is an area relatively little studied and little traveled to by academics in the United States, yet one where American companies are increasingly interested in having a presence. Bordering on China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan, this part of Russia is also likely to play a significant role in geopolitics and international relations as the economic and political power of China grows and the countries of East Asia increase their cooperation. 

By examining South-Central Siberia, seminar participants will see firsthand the breadth of Russia, and will gain a much better sense of its complexities and diversity—in terms of culture, ethnicity, and physical environment. A multifaceted understanding of Russia is critical if students are to be properly prepared to interact with the country and its people on a professional basis after leaving college or in their existing professional teaching careers. Our approach is interdisciplinary: restricted to no one field of study, we aim to draw from all relevant topics in order to best grasp the changes which made Siberian Russia what it is today, and the influences that will change it in the future. 

This seminar will complement the Colleges’ missions and that of Fulbright-Hays by combing Russian area studies, cultural studies, and language-training components into an academic program, and by allowing participants to live in Russian households and participate in service learning projects. It will provide important exposure to Siberia for young Americans who will end up working in education, business, and the government, as well as experienced teachers whose positions can enable them to inspire the next generation of foreign language learners. It will introduce students and teachers to an area critical to contemporary problems of development and multicultural heritage, and will lay the groundwork for further interdisciplinary work and collaboration between Russian and U.S. faculty. 

This proposal addresses Competitive Preference Priorities II and III of the 2014 competition. 

# P021A140049 - Portland State University - Egypt

Fulbright Hays Group Study Abroad Short Term Seminar Program 

Egypt in Flux: The Ebb and Flow of History 

Project Director: Elisheva Cohen; elisheva.l.cohen@pdx.edu; 503.725.5054

The Middle East Studies Center of Portland State University proposes to conduct a five-week short term study seminar in collaboration with the American Research Center in Egypt. 

This Seminar, entitled Egypt in Flux: The Ebb and Flow of History, will take twelve K-16 educators to Egypt during summer 2015. This project aims to reshape how participants think and teach about the Middle East at a time when ‘unrest-with-no-end-in-site’ dominates the media and Islamophobia is on the rise in American cities and communities. The program will accomplish this goal through two objectives: (1) increase participant knowledge of the history and culture of Egypt; (2) develop and disseminate tools and resources to support education about Egypt in the K-16 classroom, thereby improving the accuracy and content of their classroom curricula. 

The Seminar will consist of lectures by Egyptian and American scholars, experts and development practitioners, Egyptian Colloquial Arabic language classes, reflection sessions, field trips and cultural heritage tours each week. Participants will be paired with Egyptian Cultural Mentors from whom they will learn to navigate their new environment and with whom they can discuss the weekly topics. During their time in Egypt, they will explore five themes: (1) Religion, tolerance, secularism and fundamentalism; (2) Education in Egypt; (3) Heritage and conservation; (4) Youth and development; (5) Environmental issues. Following the Seminar in Egypt, participants will create teaching materials based on these themes that will be distributed to K-16 educators throughout the country. 

This proposal addresses Competitive Priority 1, specific geographic regions, Competitive Priority 2, substantive training and thematic focus on priority languages, Competitive Priority 3, inclusion of K-12 educators, and Invitational Priority 1, inclusion of community colleges. 

# P021A140008 - Metropolitan State University of Denver - Morocco 

Applicant Institution: Metropolitan State University of Denver 

Project Co-directors: Dr. Paul Sidelko, Co-Director Dr. Robert Hazan, Co-Director  psidelko@msudenver.edu; hazanr@msudenver.edu

303.352.5058; 303.556.3412 

Project Type: CFDA 84.021A Short Term Seminar Project 

Project Title: Traditions & Transitions in the Formation of Modern Morocco: A Seminar for Denver Educators 

Number of Participants: 12 (six university and community college faculty members and six graduate, junior, and senior pre-service teachers) 

Project Overview: Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver), in partnership with the Community College of Denver (CCD) and the Front Range Community College (FRCC), proposes to conduct a four-week, short-term seminar on modern Morocco during summer 2015 for a team of 12 participants to include educators from the three institutions of higher education and pre-service teachers from MSU Denver. The seminar will be co-directed by two MSU Denver professors who possess expertise on North Africa (the Maghreb), the Middle East, and Islam. This project is designed to improve area studies curricula at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels and to better integrate international studies into the general curriculum. The academic focus of the program spans the humanities and the social sciences to include history, language, culture, religion, politics, geography, and economics. The seminar will result in enhanced knowledge of participating faculty members and pre-service teachers, and will thus improve the quality of instruction about Morocco in particular and area studies in general in Denver and Colorado. 

Specific objectives are to: (1) Strengthen faculty members’ and pre-service teachers’ expertise and competence about Morocco and Islam; (2) Enhance the quality of curriculum about Morocco and Islam; (3) Acquire relevant teaching materials (artifacts, publications, and personal experiences) that only an on-site experience can provide; and (4) Disseminate Morocco-focused curriculum material to other educators through workshops, participation in professional meetings, and publications. These objectives will be accomplished through an intensive program consisting of a three-day orientation program, four-week on-site experience, and follow-up and dissemination activities. 

# P021A140020 – Towson University - Peru

Project Title: Partners in Education: Working Together to Enhance the Teaching of Latin America - Peru 2015 

OSPR # 140385 

Author: Colleen Ebacher 

Submission to: U.S. Department of Education 

8000 York Road

Towson, Maryland, 21252-0001

410.704.5064

Short-Term Seminar 

Partners In Education: 

Partners in Education: Working Together to Enhance the Teaching of Latin America Peru 2015 

Hispanics make up nearly 25 percent of U.S. public school enrollment. Despite the culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds of a significant number of their students, most K-12 teachers lack the cross-cultural background, knowledge and experience necessary to provide the responsive and enriching learning environments their students need. The purpose of the proposed seminar is to enhance Spanish language competence and to develop intercultural competence and accurate knowledge of Latin American culture among U.S. secondary school educators through guided travel and learning experiences in Peru. The project has the added purpose of helping teachers create units of study for use in their classrooms, and to share in their communities and disseminate widely. For six weeks in Cusco, Peru two Towson University faculty and fifteen K-12 teachers will participate in language study, lectures, interviews, home stays, excursions, workshops and cultural activities as they explore issues central to Latin America. They will experience firsthand the history, literature, art and architecture, indigenous peoples, agriculture, biodiversity of rural Peru, and modern Peru’s economy and society. 

The goal of “Partners in Education” to foster linguistic and intercultural competence will be accomplished through: 

· Immersion experience in Peru; 

· Spanish language training; 

· Creation and dissemination of units of study in history, culture, language, geography, education, and/or economics through collaboration between K-12 teachers, university faculty and Peruvian hosts and institutions; and 

· Creation of learning community and partnerships with Peruvian teachers. 

Outcomes: 

Participants will strengthen their Spanish language skills and cultural awareness through the pre- and post- departure activities and the six-week immersion in Peru and language instruction at the ECELA Institute in Cusco. “Partners in Education” will assist teachers in creating and providing enriching and responsive learning environments that meet the needs and challenges of a culturally and linguistically diverse student population. As we recognize who we are as a nation, we will better be able to ensure that all students succeed. 

# P021A140016 - Webster University - Brazil

Name and Contact Information of Project Director:  Deborah Trott Pierce, Ph.D., 

Director, Center for International Education, 460 E. Lockwood, Webster, Missouri 63119 

Telephone: 314.246.7432; E-mail: deborahpierce40@webster.edu

GPA Project Type: Type 1, Short-Term Seminar Project 

Number and Educational Level of Participants: 10 participants; four college professors, six K-12 school teachers 

Invitational Priority: New applicant 

Competitive Preference Priority 2 (Portuguese language) and 3 (50 percent K-12 teachers) 

Brief Overview of Project: The University and an environmental consulting firm, MDL, will provide a six-week study abroad opportunity for faculty members and high school teachers and/or pre-service teachers from the St. Louis area to initiate and strengthen language and area studies through a lens of environment and sustainability. Project goals and objectives for “Brazil: Crucible of Environmental and Sustainability Challenges and Solutions” are: (1) to provide first-hand experience in issues prevalent in Brazil: deforestation, endangered species, waste, landfills, recycling, energy, air pollution, industrial pollution, and water pollution; (2) to provide professional development that would promote and support the integration of global environmental and sustainability issues into the curricula; (3) to provide intensive Portuguese language learning opportunity; and (4) to train participants to disseminate their experience to other schools and universities and local organizations. 

The program will feature intensive Portuguese-language instruction and lectures featuring Brazilian culture, readings, and experiential learning opportunities on the origins, history, and past and current approaches toward serious environmental and sustainability (E&S) issues facing contemporary Brazil. Webster University finds it timely to explore what it means to reorient education, especially teacher education, by addressing these complex, critical issues: the environment and sustainability require new ways of thinking, collaborating, and solving problems. Brazil, where all these issues can be observed and studied, will serve as the perfect laboratory for participant experiential learning. 

The pre-departure phase will focus on language study, culture, and E&S challenges common to Brazil and other developed nations, as well as the unique solutions that Brazilians have adopted. Participants will study basic language phrases during orientation, with intensive development during daily instruction and immersion while in Brazil. They will write model lesson plans, design curricular modules, incorporate what they learn in existing or new courses dealing with E&S Studies, and share their experience in a peer-reviewed public event. While in Brazil, an American and a Brazilian host will guide them in a native Portuguese cultural and linguistic context in class and through cultural tours and activities outside the classroom. 

Participants will be prepared to promote and create groups of educators and facilitators in the St. Louis region to disseminate their experience to other schools, universities, and local organizations. They will discuss environmental, sustainability and the international development agenda in a broader perspective, with expected impact upon the local curricula. This project will increase the faculty and teachers’ professional and language skills (Portuguese), and strengthen the network among American and Brazilian organizations and people. 

# P021A140006 – Oakton Community College – Bolivia and Peru

Indigenous Voices at the Frontier of a Globalized World: Bolivia and Peru 

Applicant Institution: Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL 

Project Director: Katherine Schuster, Ph.D. 

Professor of Education and Coordinator of Global Studies 

Oakton Community College 

1600 East Golf Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016 

847.376.7118 

schuster@oakton.edu

Applying for GPA Project Type: Short-Term Projects 

Number and Educational Level of Project Participants 

Project Director: community college professor 

Project Co-Director: community college professor 

Twelve Seminar Participants, six community college faculty, six high school teachers 

**Proposed Project Overview**

Applicant proposes a five-week seminar in Bolivia and Peru, beginning in July of 2015, on indigenous peoples’ experiences of and responses to globalization.  Pre-departure activities will enhance the in-country experience and post-Seminar activities will lead to meaningful outreach and curriculum transformation. The major long-term goals of the Seminar and all preparatory and post-travel activities are: 

1. To develop a cohort of experts on the social, cultural, political, environmental and economic impacts of and responses to globalization within indigenous communities in Bolivia and Peru by connecting community college and high school educators to a range of individuals, institutions, and initiatives, including representatives from academia, civil society, political institutions, and indigenous cultures in those countries. 

2. To foster among participants and affiliated institutions an understanding and appreciation of Quechua as an indigenous language and its relationship to cultural preservation and community identity, and thus, a recognition of the importance of language preservation. 

3. To create innovative international and multicultural curricula that draw on the participant immersion experience in Bolivia and Peru, and to facilitate inclusion of this curricula at Oakton Community College, partnering institutions, and surrounding secondary and postsecondary institutions. 

This application addresses Competitive Preference Priority II, Projects that Provide Training and Focus on a Priority Language; Competitive Preference Priority III, Inclusion of K-12 Educators; and the Invitational Priority, Applications from Community Colleges. 

# P021A140025 – Northern Illinois University - Philippines

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Northern Illinois University (NIU) proposes a Short Term Seminar Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad program entitled “The Philippines: Ethno-Religious Diversity and Human Rights in a Transitioning Democracy in Southeast Asia.” 

The Project Director is Dr. Susan Russell (srussell@niu.edu; 815.753.0246), a full professor of Anthropology and a Philippine specialist with extensive in-country, exchange program, and grant administration experience.  She will be collaborating with Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail (rgallocrail@niu.edu) , senior Tagalog instructor at Northern Illinois University, to deliver a high-quality instructional and experiential area studies and Tagalog language learning program for four weeks in the Philippines for **six**K-12 educators and **six**community college instructors, with a preference for recruiting participants from four partner minority-serving community colleges in northern Illinois.  

The in-country project director is Feliece Yeban, an internationally well-known professor of Human Rights Education and Social Sciences as well as Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Philippine Normal University (PNU) in Manila. PNU is the National Center for Teacher Education in the country. Professor Yeban will be responsible for overall co-coordination of the overseas program and for guiding the thematic emphasis on human rights in different parts of the Philippines.  The 18-month program will begin in September 2014 and end in late February 2016 and will include a two-day pre-departure orientation and two two-day follow-up programs for the educators to present, polish and receive feedback on their curriculum modules stemming from the program.  This proposed project meets **all three competitive preference priorities**(strategic world area, priority language of Tagalog, and the inclusion of K-12 educators).  It also meets two of the invitational priorities, including priority selection of participants from minority-serving community colleges.

# P021A140044 - University of California at Berkeley - Philippines

CFDA 84.021A Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Short Term Projects 

Project Type 2: Curriculum Development 

University of California at Berkeley - Center for Southeast Asia Studies 

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program 

Filipino Language and Culture Curriculum Development Project 

September 1, 2014 – March 31, 2016 

Project Director: Professor Jeffrey Hadler 

Center for Southeast Asia Studies 

University of California-Berkeley 

2223 Fulton Street, No. 617 

Berkeley CA 94720-2318 

E-mail: hadler@berkeley.edu

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, is applying to the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program - Curriculum Development Project Type 2 for support of an overseas summer workshop in the Philippines to develop and revise curriculum for the teaching of the Filipino (Tagalog) language and for the Philippine Studies content courses. The project is primarily intended to enroll K-12 teachers and community college instructors (with funds budgeted for 12 participants), who have current experience in teaching about the Philippine language and culture in their schools and colleges in the United States. The project’s overseas host institution will be the University of the Philippines-Diliman. 

The proposed project focuses on the Philippines, which is part of Southeast Asia, a U.S. Department of Education Priority Region. Participants will be exposed to the Philippines directly through their four-week residency at the University of the Philippines. The project therefore meets Competitive Preference Priority 1. 

This project directly and specifically proposes to support substantive curriculum development for Filipino/Tagalog. Filipino, or Tagalog, is a U.S. Department of Education priority language. The proposed project thereby meets Competitive Preference Priority 2. 

The project will directly engage and enroll K-12 teachers as participants, responding to Competitive Preference Priority 3. The project also proposes to include community colleges instructors, meeting the Invitational Priority, and a particular effort will be made to enroll community college instructors from Minority-Serving Institutions. 

#  P021A140039 - St. John’s University - India

Project Director: 

Dr. Yvonne Pratt-Johnson 

Professor of TESOL 

The School of Education 

St. John’s University 

8000 Utopia Parkway 

Queens, New York 11439 

Telephone: 718.990.2645 

Fax: 718.990.1614 

E-mail: prattjoy@stjohns.edu

Short-term Seminar in India: 

A Language and Cultural Immersion Experience for U.S. Educators 

The School of Education at St. John’s University (STJ) will lead a six-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Seminar to Punjab, India, July 1 to August 15, 2015. The 14 participants will include the Project Director, nine New York City school teachers (three elementary, three middle, and three high school teachers), three pre-service teachers, and a bilingual scholar/escort. This GPA seminar will provide teachers with an unparalleled immersion experience in Punjabi language and culture designed to promote their ability to deliver culturally informed and culturally relevant instruction and instructional support to students of Indian origins or ancestry. 

Specifically, the intention behind the project is four-fold: 1) to increase participants’ knowledge of the culture and language of Punjab; 2) to develop lesson plans that support and enrich the curriculum for participants’ U.S. students by integrating Punjabi culture and language into content classes; 3) to develop intercultural competence skills, particularly for pre-service teachers; and 4) to develop a collaborative service-learning program involving STJ students and three New York City public schools with Sikh-Punjabi student populations. 

The seminar will unfold in three phases. The pre-departure phase will consist of three full days of orientation covering aspects of Punjabi history, politics, religion, culture, language, and peoples. During the overseas phase, participants will receive intensive instruction (103.5 hours) in the Punjabi language, participate in Punjabi-led field trips to sites of importance in culture, history, and the arts throughout the region, meet and converse with Punjabi educators, collect material for use in creating lesson plans with a Punjabi area-studies component, and participate in community service. Finally, in the post-seminar phase participants will debrief about and reflect on their experiences abroad, complete their lesson plans, and discuss how they will share the knowledge and experiences that they have gained from the project with their U.S. colleagues and students. 

# P021A140059 – University of Hawaii - Cambodia

Abstract of ASK Summer 2015 

Advanced Study Of Khmer (ASK) 

Summer Abroad Program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 

The Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) Summer Abroad Program is an intensive Khmer language and cultural training program held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia since 2002.  ASK was previously funding by Fulbright-Hays, GPA Long-Term Advanced language training from 2005-2011. The program has continued with limited funding from 2012 through 2014. With success track record, ASK is seeking funding to continue its operation for summer 2015 by submitting a proposal to Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA) Program, CFDA 84.021A, Project Type 1: Short-Term Seminar Project. 

ASK aims to fill a void in the U.S. academic community by providing the vital gap to Khmer language learners from second and third year level with a “one-of-a-kind” opportunity to acquire the linguistic foundation necessary to engage in academic research, professional discourse, and cultural immersion with all segments of Cambodian society. 

ASK is administered by the College of Languages and Literature at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UHM) and in collaboration with the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in Cambodia. ASK training project will increase linguistically-competent Khmer-speaking professionals available for employment. The program will promote scholarly cooperation, cultural and socio-economic understanding between Cambodia and the United States. 

The six-week ASK curriculum is intensive and implements six instructional modules based on ACTFL proficiency guidelines. Instruction is given to small individualized groups taught by local Khmer professors. ASK is a structured academic program (equivalent to full year’s work) consisting of a daily four-hour language instruction each morning, followed by a three-hour pre-arranged afternoon site visit with related task-based learning activities for students to engage, analyze, synthesize their understanding and interacting with Khmer community, local and international agencies. Some highlight of the immersion curriculum includes: (1) homestay; (2) research on Khmer Rouge genocide war crimes; (3) Field fieldworks on ecotourism-heritage preservation at Angkor site in Siem Reap; and (4) enjoy Khmer dances, songs and cuisine. 

In addition to the Pre and Post OPI assessment and regular classroom tests, the outcome of ASK students’ language/cultural learning will culminate into: (1) students’ story book; (2) an individual mini-research paper; (3) oral presenting in Khmer on final project; and (4) special multimedia projects on certain aspect of Khmer culture. 

Total immersion in this unique host-country is the best opportunity for students to learn, to understand, and have fun while conversing in this less commonly taught language. Proficiency in Khmer language provides students with the foundation necessary for academic growth, research skills, and future career opportunities while serving the critical need for the United States in Southeast Asia. 

Details information and program requirement for the ASK program can be viewed at: http://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/ask. Or contact Dr. Sak-Humphry at sak@hawaii.edu.

[11/21/2014]