Michigan State University and the MSU Alumni Club of Indonesia invite alumni and friends from around the world to ENGAGE: International Alumni Reunion on May 11-13, 2018 to celebrate Spartan accomplishments in agriculture, education, and capacity building. Dr. Satish Udpa, MSU Executive Vice President for Administrative Services and University Distinguished Professor, and Dr. Siddharth Chandra, Director of the MSU Asian… Read More »
The Confucius Institute at the Michigan State University (CI-MSU) and the Chinese Early Language and Immersion Network (CELIN) at the Asia Society collaborate to offer you this forum. Our aim is to bring together educators at school, district, state, and national levels; teacher developers; policy makers; community members; and researchers to hear about and share… Read More »
The Confucius Institute at Michigan State University is proud to hold the "Workshop for Teachers of Chinese" with Asian Studies Center on August 14, 2018 at Henry Center. This workshop is open to all teachers of Chinese at K-16 levels and heritage programs. Register today. SPEAKERS Dr. Shuhan Wang, president of CELIN Luyi Lien, Academic… Read More »
A group of College of Education graduate students who are interested in or currently writing about global learning experiences (study/teaching abroad, international student experiences, global perspectives in teaching, learning and curriculum) meet twice per month. The group typically meets on the second and fourth Fridays of the month from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The… Read More »
Open to all MSU graduate students - US and foreign – planning to write proposals for funding dissertation or pre-dissertation research abroad for deadlines in 2018 or 2019 - especially the IIE Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad, NSF, and Ford Minority Fellowships. Free at the workshop: Funding Catalog for Graduate Student International Research Handout: "Secrets… Read More »
Three units—the Office of International Studies in Education, the MSU Confucius Institute and the Chinese Language Teacher Certification Program—have combined and are now sharing a new space on the second floor of Erickson Hall. In honor of the move and the new academic year, please feel free to drop in as your schedule allows to… Read More »
May of 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of John Dewey’s trip to China — a trip where Dewey spent nearly two years travelling, lecturing, and learning in a country then undergoing a profound process of cultural upheaval. It was within this context that Cai Yuanpei, the president of Beijing University, referred to Dewey as a “second Confucius.” Now, one hundred years later, intercultural… Read More »
A screening of the new film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Parker Sevak. Gyllenhaal plays a frustrated aspiring poet who discovers that a boy in her kindergarten class may be a budding literary genius, and begins co - opting his verses as her own. Pizza and snacks provided! All are welcome!
It is entirely possible to live abroad in a country where we hardly speak the language and not improve in fluency at all. Even in regard to language-oriented programs, the research is inconclusive about how much proficiency learners can be expected to gain and what factors will lead to those gains. Nevertheless, we firmly believe… Read More »
This event will engage P-20 educators and community members in teaching demonstrations that explore social justice issues such as ableism, immigration, racism, classism, and homophobia. The demonstrations will span teaching and learning contexts, including K-12, higher education, and community-based settings. We will explore possibilities for enacting radical love through teaching and learning in the context… Read More »
