EDUC: 392 Thailand Seminar

Course Description

Thailand is now involved in comprehensive educational and political reform in response to the challenges of globalization as understood within its distinctive and changing spiritual, cultural, geopolitical, demographic, and economic context. Reform advocates work to address aspirations for a more active and meaningfully engaged ‘public’ in schools and society. This seminar integrates varied ‘pedagogies of engagement’ (e.g. conversational reading, community-based teaching, group interview/seminar sessions, peer interaction) to connect Macalester students with Thai faculty, school and government officials, spiritual leaders, public intellectuals, and students from elementary through university levels to develop culturally grounded perspectives on national and local school-centered social reform.

For further details and enrollment information please contact
Professor Ruthanne Kurth-Schai at
kurthschai@macalester.edu

January Study Away Seminar: 19 days, 2 credits (plus optional additional 1 credit allotted for required trip preparation during fall semester)

The following students are now prepared to travel to Thailand and Explore Education Reform
under the direction of Professor Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and Teaching Assistant Natalie Schai:
Kaitlin Haugland
Hannah Adams
Megan Barry
Anja Witek
Elissa Vinnik
Katherine Bristol
Nicholas Honan
Romina Takimoto
Rachel Baisch
Stephanie Kobbe
Matthew Malmberg
Adina Sullivan
Katyana Melic