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Studies Abroad for Global Education
(SAGE) invites high school educators
to join us in July/Aug of 2008 for an Encounter
with India! Participants will travel
to North India on a journey of exploration
into this wonderfully colorful and chaotic
country that is quickly becoming a major
player on the world stage.
Trip Description:
Trip participants will meet the trip leader
and each other at the Newark, NJ airport,
prior to boarding Continental Airline’s
direct flight to New Delhi. Your encounter
of India begins in the capital city of New
Delhi where participants will be oriented
to this vast and diverse country. Over the
first few days, participants will focus
on the themes of Indian history and religious
diversity, while experiencing life in India’s
modern capital. Participants then board
a train for the Lake City of Udaipur in
the royal state of Rajasthan, where you
will spend several days exploring themes
of poverty, rural development and education.
Included in this section of your encounter
of India is a visit to a rural village outside
Udaipur.
From Udaipur, you will then return to Rajasthan’s
capital – the Pink City of Jaipur
– and from there proceed by bus to
Agra to see one of the 7 wonders of the
world: the Taj Mahal. From Agra and the
architecture of the Mughal dynasty, you
will return to Delhi and witness the impacts
of globalization on the once cow-town, now
high tech city of Gurgaon, outside of Delhi.
From Delhi, you will once again board the
train, this time for the Himalayas, stopping
in the holy cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh,
where the sacred Ganges River rushes out
of the mountains and onto the Indian plains.
You then climb by bus up into the mountains
to the quaint “hill station”
of Mussoorie where you will spend the last
few days of the trip experiencing life in
the hills of India, visiting another school,
and reflecting and writing about your encounter
of India thus far. Finally, you return to
New Delhi, visit the National Center for
Educational Research and Training, do any
last-minute gift shopping, and from there,
return back to the USA.
For a detailed day-to-day itinerary, click
here.
| “The
SAGE study tour was phenomenal. Well
organized, well executed. India is
such a vast country, and yet SAGE
put together a trip with both variety
and depth.”
-Rachel
Mullin, World History teacher, Pittsburgh,
PA |
The SAGE “Encounter India!”
trip is not a prescribed “tour”
of India. It is an educational adventure
designed to be inquiry based, where each
participant will be guided by their own
question. A variety of themes will be explored
by the entire group, but within each theme,
each individual is encouraged to be responsible
for your own process of exploration. Time
will be set aside for regular discussion
and sharing. Whether you are a social studies
or science teacher, school librarian or
principal, this trip will allow you to explore
the India that YOU are interested in. Lesson
plans which result from this trip will be
shared and distributed to other members
of the trip by permission.
Trip Leader bio:
John Alter, Chair of the English department
at the Gunnery School in Washington, Connecticut,
brings many years of experience in India.
John was born and raised in India, the son
of Presbyterian missionaries, (his father
also born on the subcontinent), and grew
up in the ‘hill-station’ of
Mussoorie, fondly known in India as the
‘queen of the hills’. This world
afforded John his first experiences of language
and poetry. It also has inspired a kind
of perpetual restlessness. John has lived
in many places, including Sweden, the United
States, India, Mauritania and Senegal, accompanied
for the last quarter century or so by his
wife, Bett, and their three children, Aaron,
Emily and Thomasin.
Click here for Necessary Forms and Information once you have been accepted onto a SAGE Educator Study Tour.
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