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Study Trips in Secondary Education: ‘language immersion’ reinvented
Author: Erik Uytterhoeven May 26th, 2010You will find case studies on Study Trips on the MOLAN website
Two of these CS are perfect examples of a real partnership between secondary schools. I’d like to introduce them to you:
Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule Berlin (Germany)
What is it about? A partnership (exchange programme for teachers and students) between a secondary school in Berlin (Germany) and a comprehensive school in Santiago de Atitlán (Guatemala), destroyed by a natural disaster (landslide) in October 2005.
This project was launched by two university students (Freie Universität Berlin) who were looking for a school contact in order to carry out a humanitarian aid initiative.
Languages covered: Spanish and … (to a very small degree) indigenous Maya languages. Read More

