Top photo – Gorongosa Park has a long tradition of hosting graduate students and educators from abroad. Boise State University graduate Rebecca Bishop handles a White-backed Vulture in the field in Mozambique, Africa at Gorongosa National Park (Photo credit: Jeremy Van Driessche)
Gorongosa National Park and its focus on conservation and human development will be a canvas where science, environmental studies, international development, public health, business and economics, and engineering converge in 2024.
Six Boise State University faculty members and six Idaho K-12 educators will immerse themselves in Portuguese language, Mozambican cultures, and the heartbeat of sustainability in Africa during a four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad in June.
The team of Idaho educators will gain first-hand experience in one of many African languages, listen to lectures on current Mozambican and African topics, and engage in experiential learning opportunities, individual exploration and reflection. They will use what they learn to create new or enhance existing instructional curriculum, as it relates to teaching sustainability.
The Fulbright-Hays Program awards grants to individual U.S. K-14 pre-teachers, teachers and administrators, pre-doctoral students and postdoctoral faculty, as well as to U.S. institutions and organizations. The Program supports research and training efforts overseas, which focus on non-Western foreign languages and area studies. The program is funded by a Congressional appropriation to the U.S. Department of Education and is one of the few Fulbright Programs that supports group projects abroad.