My GEM journey
My GEM journey
I worked with the Ghana Commission for UNESCO a few summers ago. Prior to this experience, I had taken several classes on colonialism across different continents. In class, I learned about how systems and structures were intentionally created to keep formerly colonized people marginalized and to lay the groundwork for metacolonialism, which is simply a …
I went on a class trip to Kenya with my Global Engagement in Practice class in March. This trip gave me the opportunity to buttress my theoretical knowledge with practical experience, especially in global engagement. I found myself reflecting at length on intercultural theorists we had engaged with in Introduction to Global Engagement, as well …
For my Global Engagement in Practice class, we each had the opportunity to pursue an individual project while in Kenya. My project focused on how Kenya’s education system confronts its colonial past, whether it creates space and fosters discussion of decolonial efforts, and how people’s concepts of cultural identity have been reconstructed since Kenya gained …
