“I realized that the moments when I got the best education were when I came across complexity and unsolved contradictions, including contradictions between what one learned and what one found on the ground, between scholarship and activism, and especially, between what one saw in other places and in one’s own. This position of alterity, of being an Other within and without, has moulded my intellectual journey.”

A new program encourages faculty fellows to work with partners to create and implement projects designed to support integration of intercultural dimensions and world languages into teacher education. Eight education faculty from Cornell University, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, and SUNY Cortland are participating as faculty fellows in the Global Learning Education program. The program is a collaboration between education faculty and Cornell University’s area studies programs, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers in Cornell’s Einaudi Center—the South Asia Program, in consortium with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University (a part of its Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs); and the Southeast Asia Program. Co-sponsors include Cornell’s East Asia Program, Latin American Studies Program, and Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; it is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, International Foreign Language Education office.