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Explore, Educate, Expand: The Exploratorium’S Education Abroad Youth Program, Nina Rubin
Explore, Educate, Expand: The Exploratorium’S Education Abroad Youth Program, Nina Rubin
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This capstone describes the design of an outbound, education abroad program that will take place in Dharamsala, India over a five-week period. It will bring together young adults from the U.S. and Tibet for an intercultural learning experience. The program will provide hands-on opportunities for participants to be engaged in academic, philosophical and personal growth. The educational workshops and activities will be centered on neuroscience, meditation, and Buddhist conceptions of science and the natural world. At the same time, themes of intercultural communication and competence will be explored in-depth.
As a foundation, the program will build from an existing partnership …