To sign up for any of the ISDSI email lists, go here.
2008
2007
- An ISDSI instructor, Rodjana Nasor (AKA Pi Toto) traveled to the US to visit Kalamazoo College and the University of Denver.
While there Toto did a NOLS course in Wyoming, and and internship with NOLS. Read
more in the NOLS blog! (July)
- One of our favorite companies making a difference for sustainability is Patagonia.
Our program was highlighted in Patagonia's blog, The Cleanest Line.
Read the full entry here. (June)
- ISDSI helped organize the first
Southeast Asia ECHO Agricultural Conference. We were involved in the planning committee, helping to increase participation
from Thai development workers, and ran a workshop,
Global Climate Change: Implications for agriculture and community development. (June)
- An article explaining the ISDSI approach to cross-cultural place-based education is
online "A New Model for Study-Abroad"
(a pdf version is available here). This was published in
The Bangkok Post on March 20, 2007
and can be read online. (March)
2006
- ISDSI presented a poster and was invited to give a workshop on Lessons Learned in Cross-Cultural Place-Based Education
at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference
The Role of Higher Education in Creating
a Sustainable World, at Arizona State University. (October)
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On September 19, 2006, there was a coup in Thailand. For more on this event and how it impacts ISDSI and students,
please go here.
- Robert Steele, of AtKisson Group Southeast Asia, gave a talk
"Landscape-based experiential education in Thailand: Two successful examples
of ESD in the Asia-Pacific region" which featured a case study of ISDSI's educational approach
at the The Association of Southeast Asian
Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL)
and
Universiti Sains Malaysia
2006 ASAIHL Conference
on
Education For Sustainable Development in Penang, Malaysia. (June)
- A Master's thesis, Investigating Conditions for Transfer of Learning in an Outdoor Experiential
Study Abroad Course by Michael Anderson
is a case study of an ISDSI Expedition Field Course (Human Rights and the
Environment).
The degree was granted in Outdoor Environmental
Education and Outdoor Life, Linkoping
University, Sweden. The thesis is available online. (June)
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One of the largest study-abroad sites online, IIE Passport's
country
of the month for May is Thailand.
ISDSI
helped supply photos for their web and print editions, and they have put a page online about
ISDSI, "Study Abroad in Thailand with
ISDSI..."
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In collaboration with the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership
School (WMI), ISDSI is offering a
Wilderness First Responder Course July 23-August 1, 2006, in Chiang Mai. For course
details, see our WFR page.
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A new version of the ISDSI white paper is online, explaining
our program, approach to education and sustainability, and course offerings.
2005
- The ISDSI Announcements mailing list is online!
To sign up, visit the page here.
- ISDSI presented a paper, "Expedition Learning, Thailand and the Tsunami" at the North
American Association
for Environmental Education conference (NAAEE).
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The People, Ecology and Development program has been nationally
recognized as one of three "best practice" study-abroad
programs for 2004-2005 by the Institute of
International Education (IIE)
2005 Andrew Heiskell Awards.
2004
2003
- Read online or
download (PDF file)
the article
"Risk Management in Study Abroad: Lessons from the Wilderness" from
Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Vol. 9, 2003.
- Kalamazoo College, which set up ISDSI and remains our primary partner,
was ranked #1 for its study abroad programs in US News & World Report 2003
Edition America's Best Colleges.
2002
- ISDSI curriculum planning and risk management assessment with the National Outdoor Leadership School
(NOLS):
"It would be impossible to list all the things ISDSI is doing well or soundly as they are lengthy. I
was impressed
with the program and will recommend it to others."
- Molly Doran, NOLS
- Read a student's reflection on her experience Seeing in a New Way
published in her campus newspaper.
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