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Doctors And Imams: Investigating The Integrated Schools Of Mombasa, Kenya, Beth Ann Williams
Doctors And Imams: Investigating The Integrated Schools Of Mombasa, Kenya, Beth Ann Williams
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Since the arrival of Europeans in the 19th century there has been tension within the Swahili community between the traditional Islamic madarasa system of education and the new Western model they brought. In recent decades a new dimension has been added to this struggle through schools which combine the two different institutes. There are two types of integrated schools currently operating within Mombasa. The first is a network of integrated nursery schools founded by the Madarasa Program. The Program works through their schools to empower and educate impoverished Muslim areas using ideas of community ownership and development. The Program, and …
The Significance Of Music Education In The Primary Curriculum, Mina Won
The Significance Of Music Education In The Primary Curriculum, Mina Won
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
I arrived in Ireland with very little knowledge of what the ‘Transformation of Political and Social Conflict’ semester would entail. As music major, I had to be prepared to study and learn about particular subjects that were completely foreign to my normal area of concentration. During my experiences throughout Ireland, however, I was surprisingly able to soak up even more of my two passions in life: music and children. After one afternoon with children from the Foundation Project, I realized how my two areas of interest are universal and that studying about music and children is never-ending. I recognized that …
La Historia Y La Educación: El Fomento De Una Identidad Nacional, Mira Kohl
La Historia Y La Educación: El Fomento De Una Identidad Nacional, Mira Kohl
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This project focuses on how history classes in a public highschool in Quillacollo, Bolivia, affects imaginaries of the nation and the student’s national identity. The work addresses both content of the current history curriculum, as well as methodology and pedagogy as a theory and its practice in the classroom. The questions addressed come together to shed light on the current reality of the school as influencing student’s understanding of their relation to the world and the underlying problems of the educational system. Furthermore this work hopes to enlighten future attempts at reworking the educational system, as well as political intentions …
El Espíritu Revolucionario: El Movimiento Obrero En Los Sindicatos De Siglo Xx Y Catavi, Will Brunnquell
El Espíritu Revolucionario: El Movimiento Obrero En Los Sindicatos De Siglo Xx Y Catavi, Will Brunnquell
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The labor syndicates of Siglo XX and Catavi in Llallagua Bolivia served as a beacon for labor movements throughout Bolivia through the tweentieth century. Known as one of the revolucionary centers of Bolivia, the history of the labor movments holds great importance in historicaly as well as in our day. The goal of this project was not only to research and document this history in an academic manner, but also to create a kids book which would weave this essential history into a story for children. In order to compile the history which provided the basis for the story I …