Study Abroad in Thailand!

Academically challenging and intensely experiential, ISDSI courses are expeditions into the cultures and ecology of Thailand. Each course is focused on understanding sustainable development and is designed in collaboration with local communities.

Integrating both the social and natural sciences, on our courses students may work on an organic farm alongside villagers while learning about agroecosystems, backpack on remote forest trails in the mountains with ethnic people in order to study indigenous forest management, sea kayak to learn about oceans, reefs and fishing communities, or paddle a river with village elders while studying ethnoecology.

Spring semester at ISDSI (See a video about the fall semester on our video page.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fall Semester, 2010 Application Deadline- March 15, 2010.

Spring Semester, 2011 Application Deadline- September 15, 2010.

To apply please email apply@isdsi.org for an application. See our Apply page for more information.

What’s happening at ISDSI now? Go to www.isdsi.org/calendar/details/ to see our current activities, what our students are doing, etc.

ISDSI Blog

February 9th, 2010

Talking (and writing) with conviction

Currently so much talking and writing is often done without conviction — without thoughtful, measured, and considered words. As any alumni of an ISDSI program can tell you, there is a lot of writing during an ISDSI course — field notes, essays, reflections, etc. As we are teaching our students about writing and research over [...]

February 5th, 2010

Student blogs for spring

This spring semester several of the students are blogging their experiences. Check them out for some great insights into Thai culture, homestays, and their adventures in Thailand! Here are some excerpts (with spelling and grammar left as is…)
Jack:
I’ll wake up every morning at around 5:45 AM when it is still dark out, but two hours [...]

February 4th, 2010

The newest additions to ISDSI…

This year was a busy one for ISDSI, with three brand new additions joining the other kids at ISDSI — Nong Ellie, Nong Que and Nong Mai — all born in 2009!
Ajaan Wilasanee (Kru Ning), who teaches and Thai for ISDSI as well as coordinates host family placements had a baby girl, Nong Mai, on [...]

February 3rd, 2010

Fish in a barrel

A friend of ours, Randy Bevis, introduced us to the idea of running a barrelponics system at ISDSI. Randy runs a development project north of Chiang Mai city where they raise fish for stocking aquaculture ponds in local communities. We looked into the system, and found a great resource online at F.A.S.T with the barrelponics [...]

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