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| Tuesday April 21, 2009 | |
CES Faculty Enhance Chapman’s Global Connections |
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 CES faculty participate in a national and international community of scholarship with ongoing communication and reciprocal campus visitations involving institutions across the nation and in such countries as New Zealand, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Iceland. We honor diversity at home and abroad. Students are presented with numerous opportunities throughout the year to hear visiting scholars from around the globe. Study abroad experiences are encouraged and supported with academic and financial aid policies. The International Experience for Students CES’s Athletic Training and Education Program (ATEP) incorporates the international experience annually, as part of its clinical rotation component. In odd-numbered years, students have the chance to serve a portion of their clinical rotation in Australia, while covering the country’s football, cricket, net ball and basketball sports. Even-numbered years find ATEP students in Germany, at the German Academy of Applied Sports, where they observe the premier German soccer leagues and high-altitude training in the Swiss Alps. Both sets of students are able to explore amazing sites in the surrounding areas, learn about athletic training in other countries, and improve their international communication skills. Students in the Credential Program also have the opportunity to weave a global experience into their studies, by taking either Second Language Acquisition or Education Workshop Series in Spain during the summer semester. (Second Language Acquisition is also offered on campus.) Addressing the issue of cultural dissonance, Drs. Anaida Colon-Muniz and Suzanne SooHoo recognize the tremendous value of experiencing culture as the other, for sensitizing future teachers to the needs of a diversity of students. Students stay in homes, visit schools in Spain, and listen to guest speakers in addition to four-day-a-week lectures. Dr. SooHoo speaks of the “powerful experience” and “catalytic cultural transformation” of this focused international and intercultural learning experience. A former student of this course wrote, “Now, I understand my newcomer students. They come into class not knowing the social norms, language and culture. And yet we expect them to succeed in school in two [to] three years.” The international experience is invaluable for our future teachers. |
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