Encounter India for Educators!

  India

• New Delhi: 
New Delhi

Dates: July 7-21, 2009

Description: Your encounter of India begins in the capital city of New Delhi where participants will be oriented to this vast and diverse country. Over the first few days, participants will focus on the themes of Indian history and religious diversity, while experiencing life in India's modern capital. Participants then board a train for the Lake City of Udaipur in the royal state of Rajasthan, where you will spend several days exploring themes of Gandhian thought, rural development and education. Included in this section of your encounter of India is a visit to a rural village outside Udaipur. From Udaipur, you will visit the Pink City of Jaipur, and from there proceed to the Taj Mahal.

From Agra and the architecture of the Mughal dynasty, you will return to Delhi and witness the impacts of globalization on the once cow-town, now high tech city of Gurgaon. From Delhi, you head for the Himalayas, stopping in the holy cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh, where the sacred Ganges River rushes out of the mountains and onto the Indian plains. You then climb by bus to the quaint "hill station" of Mussoorie where you will spend the last few days of the trip experiencing life in the hills of India, visiting an international school, and reflecting and writing about your encounter of India thus far. Finally, you return to New Delhi and from there, return back to the USA.

Travel details: Participants meet and depart from Newark airport, then fly on to New Delhi, returning the same way.

Highlights: The SAGE "Encounter India!" trip is not a prescribed "tour" of India. It is an educational adventure designed to be inquiry based, where each participant will be guided by their own question. A variety of themes will be explored by the entire group, but within each theme, each individual is encouraged to be responsible for your own process of exploration. Time will be set aside for regular discussion and sharing. Whether you are a social studies or science teacher, school librarian or principal, this trip will allow you to explore the India that YOU are interested in. Lesson plans which result from this trip will be shared and distributed to other members of the trip by permission.

Cost in US$: $2,500 (double occupancy; single extra)

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to India in Groups

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 10-12

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
• Alumni Network

Studies Abroad for Global Education (SAGE)'s Mission Statement: The SAGE Program offers youth and educators the opportunity to travel and study abroad as a way to gain greater understanding of the world and themselves.

Year Founded: 1992