Destination China: Understanding Chinese Culture

[Anonymous]

I wish I knew about this opportunity earlier. As a high school Chinese teacher here in San Bernardino County, I would love to join the tour to gather more information about modern China.

[Anonymous]

watched on the news this morning that china will be repelling the one chlid law by end of year.....due to ageing problem....

[Anonymous]

Same here, wish I could join the tour. I have recently started doing business with china and knowing their culture might help me to deal with them easily (even though the their is terrible language problem)

[Anonymous]

China is all about preserving their history

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program, Towson University will provide an immersion experience in Chinese culture for five weeks this summer for twelve public school teachers. The project intends to develop educators’ intercultural competence and enhance social studies curriculum and instruction on China in secondary education classrooms in U.S.A. by expanding their scope of knowledge into a Chinese speaking world that includes Hong Kong and Taiwan in the areas of history, culture, religion, economics, language and educational systems. Teacher participants will work together with Towson University faculty members to design and implement curriculum that accurately reflects Chinese heritage and culture.

The project will consist of three phases. The pre-departure activities are conducted through online learning modules to provide the teacher participants with initial language training, background knowledge and cross-cultural understanding. Following the preparation is a five-week study travel in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan featuring a combination of seminars, intensive language lessons by Chinese experts, work sessions, school and museum visits, as well as cultural excursions to sites that are related to modernization and economic development. The experience in the first two phases will be channeled to developing curriculum units that will be disseminated as a model for the study of the rest of Asia and be incorporated into area studies in K-12 curriculum to broaden students’ understanding of and appreciation for other cultures. As part of the post-departure activities, teacher participants are to finalize, implement and post the units of study accompanied by suggested teaching materials, resources and strategies on a website for all educators to access.

Who is eligible? Secondary school teachers and administrators from across the US.
Note: This includes middle school teachers.

Application deadline: March 15, 2013

The tour dates are still being finalized, but applicants should expect to leave at the very end of June and return at the beginning of August.

All travel and accommodations are covered by the program--along with most meals. Participants can spend as little as few hundred dollars of their own money--or significantly more--depending on their shopping habits.

For more information, go to
http://www.towson.edu/Coe/Fulbright/

or

please contact
Dr. Lijun Jin
Towson University
Elementary Education Department
8000 York Road
Towson, MD 21252

Phone: 410.704.2554
E-mail: [email protected]

[Anonymous]

China is empowering the world in kind of educatiing their culture and teaching good things to the students

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