Funded summer Volpe Research Fellow for International Service in Civic Education.

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•   Developed and conducted a qualitative investigation to understand the use of the Self-Organized Learning Environments methodology as a tool for peace-building and civic education in Colombia. 
 
•   Facilitated workshop and interviewed SOLE facilitators to understand their perceptions of Self-Organized Learning and its potential as a tool for peace-building in Colombia for: The Rural Alternative School in Miranda composed by farmers and reinserted ex-combatants from the FARC guerrillas, Public schools with students from displaced families, a cooperative of coffee farmers in Caldas, an after-school program for youth in Bogota and the Wayuu indigenous community of Camarones.

 

•   Published an article in the Global Update, the newsletter of the International and Comparative Education Program.