cameroon - trinity western university · schools in the city of bamenda, in cameroon’s north west...
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CAMEROONEDUCATION · MAY 2017Trinity Western University Travel Studies
Get relevant teaching experience in a location unlike any other.
Allyson Jule e: [email protected] ph: 604-513-2121 ext 3517
June Smith e: [email protected] ph: 604-513-2121 ext 2072
the educational context in west/central africa is vastly different from what twu students usually can experience in their teacher preparation. This travel study provides such an opportunity to twu education students to teach and learn in an African context. The Cameroonian Baptist Mission Schools in the city of Bamenda, in Cameroon’s North West Province, offer students full immersion in local African life and school culture. Students will work with local teachers during two weeks of classroom practicum time (spread over three weeks, for a total of 30 hours of direct classroom experience) while they are also enrolled in educ/soc 365 (required course) taught in the evenings by twu Professor of Education Dr. Allyson Jule. School placements are available in both elementary and secondary schools.
The goal of this travel study is to expose twu students to a vastly different educational context and to offer the meaningful opportunity to consider the role of culture and location on education. By immersing in the educational experiences of African children and youth, twu students work alongside, and learn from, Cameroonian teachers and students. Room and board are provided.
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cameroon MAY 2017
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EDUC 303/402 · Initial Classroom ExperienceThese initial classroom practica provide students with meaningful educational experiences in schools and classrooms. Students relate their studies in the university classroom to school settings. Thirty (30) hours of school classroom time.Prerequisites: EDUC 302
EDUC 365 · Social Issues in EducationAn analysis of the role of school in culture; societal trends affecting the institutions and practices of education; interpretive paradigms and related research studies; group dynamics in education; religious, social and economic factors and issues in education.Prerequisites: EDUC 200 Directed Studies may also be arranged.
Allyson Jule, Ph.D.allyson jule is professor of education and the Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, bc, Canada. She earned her Ph.D. at Roehampton University in London, uk, and taught for several years in Wales before returning to Canada in 2008. Her research interests include gender and education as
well as gender and religious identity as well as educational sociology.
Dr. Jule is the author of several books on the topic of gender and has written many academic articles on the role of gender and educational experiences. She serves on many international and national committees, including her current service as the President of Canada’s Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (wgsrf). Recently, she was awarded the prestigious 3m Canada Teaching Fellowship, the only twu professor to have received the honour. Dr. Jule has lived and worked in Cameroon and has led all of twu’s School of Education Cameroon travel study trips.
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