Educational reconstruction article

I came across this booklet on educational reconstruction in Rwanda. It's a really rich document with background info on education pre and post genocide and the process of reconstruction. There are surveys of children and teachers about their experiences. I highly recommend taking a look at it!

http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/Rwanda_Neveragain.pdf

I am testing my blogging skills. My first idea to start before I leave is to ask my upcoming class to write letters to students we could potentially visit. I hope to come back with responses and a great way to open our expedition. E.

Howdy-

Hi ladies...

I thought I would test this thing out... so many things to figure out.

I hope all is well and that we can get ourselves prepared to do some awesome stuff while in Rwanda.

KimJ

New History Curriculum

We may want to take a look at the website:

http://hrc.berkeley.edu/rwanda.html

It concerns a new curriculum developed by Rwandan teachers (with the support of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Educationon) on how to teach about the Genocide. There is a link to the curriculum itself with sample lesson plans.

Schooling for the future

This expedition will focus on schooling in Rwanda, particularly the role of education in national development. It will feature interviews and materials from Ministry planners, discussion of the way that vocational education is woven into the academic fabric in Rwandan schools, video documentation of the community service work teachers and pupils accomplish through the schools, investigation of the hardships families are willing to bear to be able to afford to send their children to school, and interesting explications of the constricted and therefore competitive promotion system whereby only some students are allowed to progress to each successive state in schooling. Current plans are for this team to teach several students to use simple video cameras and to have them film parts of their own school-day routines. These clips will be the inspiration for similar exercises in U.S. schools that adopt the Schooling for the Future learning expedition.