GIEU in the News
Scholarly Articles
Diversity and Democracy
Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring 2008, Pages 10-11
“Intercultural Experiential Learning for the Engaged Global Citizen”
by A.T. Miller
Diversity work often supports the important goal of creating a meaningful presence for underrepresented identities on our campuses, in our programs, and in our disciplines. But diversity education is about more than critical mass. As diversity practitioners, we want our students to value the strengths that arise from their differences, both within and between groups, rather than rely on superficial similarities that might bind them together. We want our students to be able to engage meaningfully with diversity: to identify and express discomfort, share their familiar home cultures, and listen for understanding across difference…For more information, click http://www.diversityweb.org/DiversityDemocracy/vol11no2/vol11no2.pdf
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New Directions for Teaching and Learning
Number 111, Fall 2007, Pages 55-62
“New Learning and Teaching from Where You’ve Been: The Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates”
by A.T. Miller and Edith Fernandez
When we began to design the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) at the University of Michigan, we were looking to create a comprehensive program that would have a profound impact on the way students learned at the university and on the way faculty approached their students and taught. This was in addition to the mandate to both broaden and increase the level of “global” education at the university and to make sure that such a program drew in a far more diverse range of students and faculty than past efforts at the experiential, community, or international learning…For more information, click http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/116318555/PDFSTART
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Women's Studies International Forum
Volume 30, Issue 3, May-June 2007, Pages 254-263
"Dialogue at the margins: Women's self-stories and the intersection of identities"
by Ramaswami Mahalingam and Pamela Trotman Reid
The need to look beyond national boundaries and regional identities to develop our understanding of women's lives is increasingly recognized in the United States. Issues of gender and ethnic privilege cannot be understood fully if perspectives remain insular and myopically focused on White Americans. In this paper, we describe an effort to cross multiple boundaries to promote intercultural understanding in a program that took undergraduate students to another country. By identifying two groups of women, each at the margins of their communities (both national and local), we began a dialogue and initiated an exchange among these women; for each group it was necessary to identify personal location and expose multiple layers of interconnections across social levels...For more information, click http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBD-4NKJ1MN-1&_user=99318&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000007678&_
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Midwifery
Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 78-87
“Challenges for traditional birth attendants in northern rural Honduras”
by Lisa Kane Low, Holly Scheib, Joanne Mitino Bailey, and Emma Sacks (GIEU Honduras 2003)
In 1990, the World Health Organization identified the Honduran maternal mortality rate as one of the highest in Latin America at 182 per 100,000 live births (Danel, 2000). In an effort to reduce this high level of maternal mortality, the Honduran Ministry of Health instituted a national health policy explicitly addressing ‘safe motherhood’. This policy included efforts to address existing disease, poverty, lack of access and socio-cultural factors that contribute to maternal mortality (Danel, 2000). Additional areas of intervention included training traditional birth attendants (TBAs), increasing the number of at-risk women who were referred to hospital care for their births, and expanding the quality of obstetric care services throughout the Ministry of Public Health)…For more information, click http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%236957%232006%23999779998%23617087%23FLA%23&_cdi=6957&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000007678&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=99318&md5=b3d9c93163a3f7975776954b013ad9a6
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