Gallo Pinto
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junio 2008

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En este numéro de Gallo Pinto, Annika Fjelstad, la directora de la Escuela de los Amigos de Monteverde, escribe, «Invité a los maestros que se enfocaran en la educación fuera del aula. Cabe destacar algunas de las enriquecedoras giras de campo que son los sellos característicos de la educación de la Escuela de los Amigos de Monteverde. De hecho, en este número, estudiantes de la clase 11°-12° viajan en barco por los ríos Sambú y Chunga en Panamá para visitar el pueblo de los Emberá. Los estudiantes aprenden sobre esta cultura indígena, y se debaten con las complejidades de lo que se pierde y lo que se gana cuando las culturas con diversos recursos, valores y tradiciones se interactúan. En otra historia, los estudiantes de 9° y 10° caminan jadeando sobre el hielo crujiente en la madrugada hasta la cima del Chirripó, la montaña más alta de Costa Rica. Aventuras como estas, sin embargo, son simplemente manera un poco menos común para aprender fuera del aula. Hay maneras más cotidianas que suceden también. Estudiantes practican la jardinería y la astronomía detrás de la escuela, miran insectos en un jardín de mariposas cercano, y hacen entrevistas con residentes de la comunidad local.» Y más [...]
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June 2008

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In this issue of Gallo Pinto, Annika Fjelstad, director of the Monteverde Friends School, writes, “I invited teachers to focus on education outside the classroom. I hoped to feature the enriching fieldtrips that are some of the hallmarks of a Monteverde Friends School education. Indeed, in this issue, eleventh- and twelfth-graders travel by boat down the Sambú and up the Chunga rivers of Panama to visit an Emberá village. Not only do the students learn about this indigenous people firsthand, they also wrestle with the complexities of what is lost and what gained as cultures with different resources, values, and traditions come in contact. In another story, ninth- and tenth-graders breathlessly crunch across ice and frost in the predawn black-ness atop Costa Rica’s highest peak, Cerro Chirripó. Adventures such as these, however, are simply the less common ways of learning outside the classroom. Plenty of other ways also happen on the everyday scale. Students garden and stargaze behind the school, examine insects at a nearby butterfly garden, and interview local community members.” And more [...]
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