Session #11 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1.Earth Program?

• Refer to Earth Consortium blog post

2.Opportunities with UNICA (i.e teaching English)

•  Learn more opportunities here or talk directly to our guest speaker

3. How we can make FFA & 4h more globally assessable

• We will bring this questions to class as lingering question

4. Youth development challenges

• Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Direction .Read more here

5.What about agriculture and UNICA? Do you think involving agriculture with this project would be successful

• Although agriculture was not mention in the presentation, the youth development Framework (PHY) can be apply across different field ( including agriculture) 

6. Do other nations typically have year round school?

• Different country have different systems

7.Are there more universities in Nicaragua?

•  List of universities in Nicaragua

8.What are the pros and cons of the system ran at Zamarano?

•  Talk directly to our guest speaker

9.Fulbright?

• Read more about Fulbright here

What did you learn?
1. Zamarano work and class at the same time
2.Dynamic of the youth in Central America/Caribbean
3.Differences in University culture
4.Youth development and comparison of 4H and FFA in other countries
5. International Forms of Education
6.UNICA is an example of a successful '' grassroots'' type program
7.Different youth program and system that are active in developing areas
8.Amazing opportunities over the world
9.How the Zamarano school started
10. Agriculture education in other countries and education in general
11.Another form of agriculture Ag. edu at the university at Zamorano (more focused on hands-on learning)

What do you want to learn more about?
1. Some other ways problem facing youth in Latin America are being address

• Youth at risk: Read more here

2. Are there any other global agriculture education organizations

• We will bring this question to class as Lingering question

3.4-H

• Read more about 4-H here

5.Are there short term opportunities to participate with either of these organization

• Talk to instructors

6.Hand-on school/education opportunities that are available

•  We will bring this question to class as Lingering question

7.PHY=Culture+ Society+ Social Capital

• Talk more about this with our guest speaker

Seminar Opportunity - January 29th - Cultivating Dismodernity: The Meanings of Maize and Agricultural Development in Mexico’s Central Highlands

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
124 Sparks, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m

Cultivating Dismodernity: The Meanings of Maize and
Agricultural Development in Mexico’s Central Highlands

Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Penn State

Agricultural development programs in Mexico have been consistently pushing for the replacement of traditional maize cultivars with “improved”, “modern” scientifically-bred

varieties for over 70 years, and yet the overwhelming majority of Mexican maize area remains planted with farmer-bred varieties to this day. The country’s Central Highland region

is home to some of the world’s foremost centers of maize research, and also to maize-cultivating peasant communities that, though oriented to commercial production, consistently

decline to cultivate commercial seed in favor of diverse varieties that they have maintained for generations. Drawing on ethnographic research and oral histories with local maize

farmers, agricultural extension agents, and research scientists, this talk will explore how conflicting and contextually-inflected interpretations of modernity and tradition have shaped

the agricultural landscape in a region where maize is a primary source of food security, livelihood, cultural identity, and biodiversity.

Emma Gaalaas Mullaney is a dual-degree PhD Candidate in Geography and Women’s Studies. Her dissertation research has been made possible by support from the National

Science Foundation, the Society of Women Geographers, the Institute of International Education Boren Fellowship Program, Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers, the Center for Global Studies, and several other departments and institutes at Penn State. Since 2010, Emma has also served as a Youth Delegate to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

This lecture is a part of the Center for Global Studies Brown Bag Graduate Lecture Series which focuses on interdisciplinary graduate research.