15^th Annual Conference

 

February 19-21, 2004

Hotel Posada del Hemano Pedro

Antigua, Guatemala

 

 

PRE-CONFERENCE: Wednesday, February 18

Santiago Atitln

 

Preliminary Conference Program

 

Thursday, February 19

8:30-10:30         Experiential Education: Theory and Practice in Latin America

Panelists: Orval Gingerich, Director, Center for Global Education, Augsburg College

                                      Patty King, Director, Central America Study and Service Program

                                      Kathy McBride, Central America Regional Co-Director, CGE, Augsburg College

                                      Don Clymer, Director of Cross-Cultural Programs, Eastern Mennonite University

10:30-10:45        Break

 

11-12:30            Evolving Study Abroad Programs: Lessons for Program Development

Panelists: A. Gail Bier, A. Gail Bier, Center for International Studies, Tulane University

                                      Judith Maxwell, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

                                      Walter Adams, Co-Director, Brigham Young University Field School in Guatemala

                                      Baldomero Kawoq Cum Chvez, Tulane Intensive Kaqchikel Language and Culture Program

12:30-1:30         Lunch

 

1:45- 3:15          Evaluating the Impact of the Study Abroad Experience

                        Post-Program Student Evaluations, Carmen Culver, SUNY Plattsburgh

                        Paraguay and Its Bilingualism: A Fulbright-Hays Experience for American Students

                                      Why Study Paraguays Bilingualism? Mercedes Nino-Murcia, University of Iowa

                                      Leaning about National Language Policies and Language Ideologies up Close and Center, Maisa Taja, University of Iowa

                                      Effect of Study Abroad Programs on Visiting Affiliated Faculty and Host Country Scholars: The Case of Iowa-Fulbright-Hays in Paraguay, Concepcin Valadez, University of California, Los Angeles

 

3:15-3:30           Break

 

3:45-5:00           Non-traditional and Underserved Groups

                        Creating and Evaluating a Service-Learning Based Course for a Psychology Learning Community, Warren Roane, University of Montevideo, and Robert McKelvain, Abilene Christian University

                        Personal and Professional Immersion in Another Society, H. James McLaughlin and Martha Allexsaht-Snider, University of Georgia

                        Accommodating Visually Impaired Students, Elizabeth Perez-Reilly, Marryville College

 

Friday, February 20

8:30-10:30         What Host Institutions Need and Want

                        Moderator:         Maria del Pilar de Rodrguez, Universidad del Valle

                        Panelists:           Julia Whyde, University of Wyoming 

                                                Mara Luisa de Boehm, Universidad del Valle

                                                Allessandra Gallio, Universidad Rafael Landvar

                                                Ida Eve Huckenbach, Cultural Attach, U.S. Embassy, Guatemala

                                                Carmen de Foncea, Cultural Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy, Guatemala

 

10:30-10:45        Break

 

11-12:30            Service Learning

                        Moderator: Kathleen McInerney, Chicago State University

                        Combining Academic Programs and Community Development: The Case of Fundacin Cimas, Amy E. Greeley, University of Minnesota

                        Apprenticing Ethnographers in Ethnographic Field Schools and Community-Service Learning, Daniela Diamente, University of Arizona and BARA (Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology)

                        Developing Integrated Short-Term Study Abroad Programs: The Challenges of Combining Learning and Service, Jennie Smith and Abiodun Goke-Pariola, Berry College

 

12:30-2:30         Lunch in the courtyard of AmeriSpan
                        6a Ave Norte #40, Hosted by Amerispan

 

2:45-4:15           Our Good Friends in Bequia: Experiential Education, Oceanography, and the Post-Colonial Caribbean

                        Football on the Big Little Island, Captain Sen Bercaw, Sea Education Association

                        Learning and Living the Post-Colonial Caribbean, Daniel Albert, Sea Education Association

                        Science Beyond the Homeland, Erik Zettler, Sea Education Association

 

4:30-6               Politics and Social Justice

                        Introducing a Country within a Country: Nicaraguas Caribbean Coast, Aynn Setright, SIT-Nicaragua

                        Developing Themes of social Justices within the Study Abroad Context, Robert P. Kruger, Brethren Colleges Abroad

           

7:30                  Banquet La Casserole

 

 Saturday, February 21

9-11:30              Best Practices

                        Best Practices in a Tough World, William Culver, SUNY Plattsburgh

                        The Native Speaker as a Linguistic Resource, Terrell A. Morgan, Ohio State University

                        Intercultural Adjustment Training: Preparing US Students for Study in Latin America, Anne Connolly, New York University

                        International Education: Study Abroad Funding, Rewards, Assessment, Gerald St. Martin, Salisbury University

                        The University of Kansas and the Universidad de Costa Rica: Evaluating the Impact of 50 Years of an Extensive Exchange Relationship, Mary Miller and Charles Stansifer, University of Kansas

                                   

 

POST-CONFERENCE: Sunday, February 22

Chichicastenango