Dear Colleagues, I write with a request of a personal nature, and I am grateful to you in advance for any help you can offer.
Summary: Can you recommend especially strong master-level graduate programs for a student with a strong academic training in international affairs and 'development,' who has some research experience in South Africa and who will soon be completing a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia? She wishes to join a program that will enhance her theoretical and practitioner schools, studying as part of a cohort of especially talented graduate students. Longer Story: My daughter, Sarah Maniates, graduated a few years back with a degree in International Studies and Development from Kenyon College, a prestigious liberal arts college in the United States. After working at an NGO in Washington DC for eight months, she signed up with the Peace Corps and is now teaching English (and engaged in myriad other projects) in a small town north of Bahardar in Ethiopia. Sarah may be leaving the Peace Corps in May 2016 after completing her two-year initial obligation, and she is now looking to identify graduate programs that might best advance her aims. She's looking for a graduate program (MA/MS for now, as she seeks to continue her work as a practitioner) that will help her advance her interests in the ambiguities of 'development' in Africa, with a particular focus on east Africa and South Africa (as she has spent some time in this country as well). She has developed considerable on-the-ground expertise in education and educational policy in Ethiopia, and thus may wish to pursue this topic area in her studies. Sarah is at home with theory - she's theoretically inclined, to be sure - but she hopes for a graduate program, beginning at the master's level, that balances theory and practice in ways that will make her a more effective agent for change, perhaps by returning to work in east Africa or South Africa. Any strong recommendations for programs in the United States or Europe? Please reply to me off-list and I will compile and distribute the responses, which may prove helpful to those of you with students or recent graduates who fit the profile of my daughter. With many thanks and best wishes, Michael Maniates Yale-NUS College Gep-ed list caretaker ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
