South Africa
Dr. Joy Scott has proposed a program for student teaching in South Africa. Please download the file for the complete information. South Africa Program Proposal
You may also wish to view her blog on the program. You can find it at: http://blogs.uww.edu/facstaff/scottj/southafrica/
What follows here is a brief introduction:
The College of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a strong commitment to international student-teacher exchange endeavors. On record are exchanges with the countries of Australia, Jamaica and Sweden. The idea of a possible international student-teacher exchange program in South Africa came about as a result of a July 2005 informal conversation between College of Education dean Dr. Jeffrey Barnett and Dr. Joy Scott, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations. With knowledge that Professor Scott’s summer 2005 tour of South African primary and secondary schools also included meetings with education faculty at select universities, Dean Barnett inquired about whether she would investigate if the universities being visited might be interested in a student-teacher exchange with UW-Whitewater. As such, Professor Scott arranged meetings with education deans at two South African universities: the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa and the University of the Western Cape in the Cape Town area. The distance between the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town by air is approximately three hours. The meetings culminated in the schools of education deans at both universities verbally articulating high interests in embarking upon such an exchange effort and working with Professor Scott on program development.