Center Community Events
There will be a FLAS reception to welcome both summer and academic year FLAS fellows as well as discuss conditions and regulations. Attendance is mandatory. 2 sessions will be offered.
The Center is training individuals to expand its outreach program. As part of this there will be sessions starting this summer as part of our new training program for cultural consultants and outreach professionals. Cultural consultants are natives of North Africa, Turkey, West and Central Asia. They will visit classrooms, and sometimes other educational venues, such as libraries and learning areas in retirement communities, etc, to share their culture. Individuals are not expected to speak for an entire "culture." This is discouraged. However, sharing their own experiences and perspectives is an effective way to build on students' knowledge and make connections to the academic content of their presentations.
Outreach professionals engage in the training program in order to gain knowledge and teach in culturally relevant ways, with particular emphasis on North Africa, Turkey, West and Central Asia. These participants in the training program will tend to be classroom teachers, trainers in companies, or conscientious employees that want to model cultural sensitivity and share knowledge of the world. They focus on a combination of knowledge for some degree of "insider" literacy, and pedagogy for sharing that knowledge. They are not necessarily natives of the countries covered by MESC's world area, but they can be. They may be motivated by the fact they have immigrants in their classrooms, or as patients, or they may simply want to be well-versed in global cultures.
If you would like more information, or to enroll in one of the programs, please get in contact with us - mesc@osu.edu Thanks!
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