peace education!

hello again! im not getting to post half as much as i would like to... but here's a little more for now!! :)

so here's my peace ed class!!

there's 16 of us... mostly from North America this year, funny enough! from the leftish of who you can see - Oliver (Italy/US), Candido (Belize), Trish (Canada), Francine (Canada), Jean-Bosco (Rwanda), moi! :), Liza (US/Costa Rica), Brooke (US), Jesaka (US), Emily (US), Sharon (Costa Rica), Birta (Iceland), Taylor (US), Kerri (US) and the back of those heads would be Julia (US) and Ochieng (Kenya)! and Ellen (US) i think is behind the camera. it's a really good group - lots of very different backgrounds and aspirations... everything from school teachers to eco-camp to-be-starters to Belize prison staff to radio host to Kenyan military trainers... we've definitely always got more to talk about than time allows!

our classes have been good so far... i started off a little overwhelmed trying to get through a couple inches of this every night

... (we get one of these for every 15 day course!) i think i've gotten into the swing of things a little bit more now though and am enjoying my studies a lot more than at the very beginning!

our classes are quite different from course to course, because we get visiting professors in. some classes we've had have been pretty creative in teaching methods, which is what we are hopefully going for as future educators - here's some pics from one of our classes!

discussing human rights of different groups in society

"banana split"... how much of 10 cents should each group in the process get? [answer in reality: growers (1.15), pickers (0.1), packers (0.5), shippers (1), importer (0.75), wholesale (1), retailer (5.5!!!!)].

representing different people in society, make a structure that represents your relative place in world


that was our most "creative" introductory course in peace ed... we've been doing more seminar-like discussion-based types of learning since, and i really wanted to take a picture of our white board the other day when we were creating definitions and our concepts of violence and security, but unfortunately... i'm not sure i'll have a lot of pictures to put up of my recent adventures because my supposedly waterproof camera apparently didn't like the hotsprings very much! :(


but anyways, we're learning a lot about learning as we're challenging traditional teaching & classroom methods, and i'll hopefully tell you more soon... this is definitely a more bits-and-pieces than a chronological blog! but that's ok... :) anyways, bedtime for now!

take care!
xo
rainbow =)