Teacher Travelers in Jamaica
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Foster, K. (2014). Teacher Travelers in Jamaica: Using Study Tours as Field-Based Experiences. Educational Renaissance, 3(1), 3–6. https://doi.org/10.33499/edren.v3i1.79

Abstract

In his article titled “Why We Travel,” Pico Lyer clarified a clear distinction between travelers and tourists with “travelers” leaving their assumptions behind and “tourists” complaining that “nothing is the same way it is at home.” When a group of six undergraduate students and one faculty member from the University of Central Missouri (UCM) spent a week teaching 125 students a day in an at-risk youth camp in Petersfield, Jamaica in July, 2013, we were immersed in the local culture enabling us to experience Jamaica more as teacher “travelers” than “tourists” in many ways.

https://doi.org/10.33499/edren.v3i1.79
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