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Teach Morocco 2010
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The University of Arizona (UA) Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) will conduct a Fulbright-Hays Curriculum Development Teach Morocco program. This program will take thirteen full-time K-12 educators and pre-service educators to southern Morocco. The travel portion of the program will take place for four weeks during summer 2010. The program will enable educators to integrate area studies and language exposure into many segments of the curriculum and several different content areas.
The program will be led by two UA personnel, both of whom are experts on Morocco and fluent in the Moroccan dialect of Arabic. Scholar/escort Aomar Boum is a professor specializing in Moroccan minorities and the economic/environmental adaptation of the peoples of southern Morocco. Project director Tara Deubel is finishing her doctoral dissertation on the oral literature/identity of the nomadic pastoralists of southern Morocco. The group project will focus on the southern regions of Morocco, areas that are seldom visited by tourists.
The objectives of the Teach Morocco program are threefold:
- Teacher-participants, many of them from the Arizona desert regions, will examine the process of adaptation to a desert environment by learning about the nomadic and settled populations in the area.
- The seminar and study trip will develop teachers’ knowledge of the history, geography, cultures, literatures, arts, and language of this little-known part of the world, which is an important borderland joining Middle Eastern and African civilizations.
- The program will provide American teachers the opportunity to meet with educators in Morocco, establishing an international dialogue about teaching methods and collaborative projects.
 Teach Morocco promises to be a rigorous, rewarding experience for its participants. CMES will provide administration for the program and work with operators in Morocco to coordinate in-country travel, lodging, field trips, and meetings with local teachers. The project will lead to the development of integrated curricular units with a broad-based educational impact. The focus on environmental issues will connect Social Studies to Science, while the examination of borderlands cultural contacts will integrate the fine arts, literature, history, and economics.
For more information on Teach Morocco 2010 please contact Outreach Coordinator, Lisa Adeli.
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