Fellowship to Enhance Global Understanding Summer 2016
Call for Applications
Indonesia, China, & Netherlands
Application Deadline: November 30, 2015 by 5:00 pm
In 2016, there are three programs of study as part of the Fellowships to Enhance Global Understanding. Each has a specific focus and explores that focus in an international context. The structure and timing of each trip differs, but all include work in advance of the summer travel and extension of that learning upon return to MSU.
Click here to download the presentation from the FEGU Cross Program Orientation, which was held on Friday, January 8.
Application Process
The Student Fellowship Application document contains Instructions on how to apply, along with detailed Fellowship requirements. Please follow the instructions carefully. Applications that do not conform to the instructions will not be accepted.
For general questions please contact Dr. Lynn Paine at painel@msu.edu. For program specific questions, please contact the trip leader(s).
Download Student Fellowship Application for 2016
Below are brief overviews of the three programs.
Diversity and cultural context: Fellowship to Indonesia
The focus of this study program is to explore ways diversity (in its broadest sense) and cultural contexts shape education (curriculum, administration, policy) in present-day Indonesia. With nearly 240 million people, Indonesia is the country with the fourth highest population in the world. It has 33 provinces and 300 distinct ethnicities across its approximately 17,500 islands, giving rise to a rich and varied history along with cultural, religious, ethnic, socio-economic, geographic and linguistic diversity. Indonesia is also home to the fourth largest education system in the world. Due to forces of globalization, Indonesia’s cultural, economic, and political landscape is changing at an extremely rapid pace. These changes have presented Indonesia with the need to change and reform its education system. Phenomena such as professionalization of teachers, internationalization of education, institutional capacity building, and decentralization of education are among a few examples of large-scale changes that are occurring recently or within the past decade and serve as opportunities for learning and comparative education.
In particular, Indonesia offers educators and doctoral students an opportunity to investigate how the government, educational institutions, and non-governmental parties respond to the need to bring about institutional changes to meet the needs of a widely-diverse and rapidly-changing population. At the heart of our tour will be the question: how does a rapidly-developing country educate students in and for the 21st century while respecting and maintaining its diverse histories, cultures, customs, and populations?
Faculty leaders: Laura Apol, TE, and Chezare Warren, TE
Globalization, its impact and challenges for preparing students and leaders for the future: Fellowship to China
In 2008 a formal partnership agreement between the College of Education at Michigan State University (MSU) and the Faculty of Education of Southwest University (SWU) in Chongqing, China was signed to establish an international scholars exchange and study program. The purpose of the program is to help future researchers develop a global perspective on contemporary education policies and practices. Building on six prior MSU China study tours, the 2016 program is designed to provide MSU graduate students pursuing doctoral study in education an opportunity to learn about and study the educational system and culture in China. The impact of globalization and the challenges of preparing students and leaders to participate in the global economy are two of the themes addressed through this international study program.
The program itinerary includes academic briefings, lectures, school and university visits and cultural experiences in Beijing, Chongqing and Shanghai, China. The tentative schedule for the 2016 China study tour is May 11-31, 2016. The trip will include 2-4 PhD students from the University of Washington as well.
Faculty leaders: Dan Schultz, Office of K-12 Outreach, and Aman Yadav, CEPSE
Immigration and education, and curriculum development for global education: Fellowship to the Netherlands
The 2016 Netherlands FEGU program is organized around two main components: immigration and education, and curriculum development for global education. FEGU students will study the phenomenon of new immigrant students entering an education system and its complex effect on learning, teaching, administration, and policy within the country’s educational system. We will also study the role of the research university in addressing community issues represented by the immigration issue. We will concentrate on the immigration and education in the Netherlands, a country in a part of the world currently experiencing a dramatic surge in immigrant students. FEGU students will work collaboratively with Dutch graduate students and school practitioners on a research project examining this phenomenon. The second component of this FEGU program gives students experience in curriculum development for international education. Students will be asked to engage in a collaborative experience in which they will be expected to help develop the Graduate Certificate in Global Education for the MAED program within the College of Education. This curriculum research will focus on such work as identifying goals, resources, activities, and assessments appropriate for a global education certificate.
This program also has a strong research component focused on the effects of participating in global education curriculum development. FEGU students and faculty will work together to collect data throughout the process and all FEGU participants can expect to be submitting proposals for conference presentations as well as journal manuscripts by the Fall semester.
FEGU participation begins in the Spring semester with biweekly meetings, continues in the Summer with a three week trip to the Netherlands, and concludes in Fall semester. While in the Netherlands, students will live in historic and scenic Maastricht. The main activities include working collaboratively with graduate students from Maastricht University, visiting schools for immigrants, public Dutch schools, and Dutch teacher education programs. Cultural visits will be arranged for Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris.
Faculty leaders: John Dirkx, HALE, and David Wong, CEPSE