St. Gregory College Preparatory School in Tuscon, AZ, offers an online course in East African studies for high school students, from St. Gregory and elsewhere, that culminates in a service learning experience based in Naro Moru, north of Nairobi and south of Nanyuki.
After learning about Kenya history, geography, culture, and language while based in their home schools in the U.S., students travel to Kenya as a group and spend 12 days assisting and teaching in a local primary school. This is an interesting model of online and service learning that crosses school, geographic, and cultural boundaries in inspiring ways. Kudos to St. Gregory School and to teacher Fred Roberts!
Readers may enjoy following the East African Studies students' experience described in periodic posts in the Tucson Citizen. Here's the first: Teaching in Kenya: American teens learn the ropes, tucsoncitizen.com, 6/10/11.
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Photo: Excerpt of National Geographic map of Africa (Claudia Daggett)
