Dreaming away with the Lonely Planet and a map of The Gambia i'm trying to imagen how it will be to work and live abroad for a while. A wish i have since a couple of years. Can't wait to go!
Arkade-Cilon, organisation for advise on religious education and identity, and REAR, educational project in The Gambia from Windesheim, give me the opportunity to work in the Gambia on religious education. I will stay in Brikama for five months to work at Gambia College and primary schools.
Download the Proposal (pdf)
Download the Proposal (pdf)
There are two research questions in the project Religious Education from Brikama to Heiloo.
1. The Gambia
The School of Education is making a pedagogical change. From a transfer-model the educational program is changing into a child-centered model. The question of Madam Ndow is if the religious educational teachers can also make this change. And can (inter)religious dialogue play a part in this? Observations, interviews, teaching and dialogue will lead me to an advise for the School of Education at Gambia College.
2. The Netherlands
To prepare teachers(-in-training) for diversity in class rooms Monique Leygraaf - researcher and lector on Diversity and Critical Citizenship at iPabo, School of education Amsterdam and Alkmaar - and Arkade-Cilon - advise and counseling in Religious Education and Identity - asked me to gather multiple stories of children in the Gambia. This way we can provide the teachers(-in-training) with a more realistic view of children all over the world. Thinking in prejudices we can link people just with a single story. Novelist Chimananda Adichie talks about the danger of a single story on TED.
