Cultural Explorations in Morocco

Rabat: Arabic and Arabization

Fez and Sefrou: Rural Roots

Susannah Bien-Gund, MSEd, MA, has worked with language learners in many different contexts, including elementary, middle, high school students of French, Arabic, and English in the United States, as well as urban and rural contexts in Morocco. She lived in Fez, Rabat, and Massa, Morocco from 2008 to 2010, investigating language policy and pedagogy in Moroccan schools as a Fulbright Scholar and has been traveling to Morocco since then to study, teach, and conduct research. More recently, Susannah managed the Adult Education Program at the Arab American Association of New York, working with immigrant adult learners and activists in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Susannah received her MSEd in Elementary Education from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages from Hunter College, and a BA from Swarthmore College, where she majored in Linguistics and Languages with Arabic and French. During the 2017-18 academic year, Susannah was an English Language Fellow at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, China, working with future educators at the university and traveling around the country to conduct teacher trainings and workshops on teaching and language learning.

2020 costs: $2,995 per person to earn 60 CTLE hours or 6 CEUs

Includes:

• Hotel (double occupancy)
• Most meals,
• Local transportation,
• Bank Street faculty program leader,
• Guest speakers, and
• Cultural experiences.

We have left airfare travel out of this budget, so you can make the plans that work best for you, including the possibility of extending the trip at the beginning or end of the group experience. We anticipate taking a morning flight to Casablanca and traveling by train to Rabat.

Additional costs include:

• Airfare to Casablanca. (A recommended flight will be optional for those who want to travel together.)
• Travel insurance
• Two meals
• Alcoholic drinks
• Souvenirs, optional evening activities.
• Single occupancy accommodations available for an additional $250.
• 1 or 2 graduate credits can be earned for an additional fee. Coursework will be due in November of 2020.

Bank Street Cooperating Teacher Vouchers and Bank Street Staff Vouchers will decrease the program cost to $1,995.

This program is open to all educators. Bank Street affiliation is not required.

This course is greatly enhanced by our work with the following partner organization:

International Institute on Languages and Cultures (INLAC) aims to foster dialogue between cultures and peoples, especially between the Islamic world and the West. Global unrest and the tragic events of September 11, 2001, have highlighted the urgency of promoting communication between civilizations and societies, especially the youth of the Islamic world and the United States. INLAC was founded as a structured forum for such a communication through both academic and cultural channels.

Cofounders Moha Ennaji, Senior Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, and Fatima Sadiqi, Senior Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, both at the University of Fez, recently co-edited Gender and Violence in the Middle East  (Routledge, 2011); Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change (Routledge, 2010), and Migration and Gender in Morocco (Red Sea Press, 2008).