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Service Learning Initiative: South Africa Trip
Education and Leadership Development
Discover innovative approaches to education and leadership development in the challenging context of a country still working to overcome the legacy of institutionalized racial inequality.
As you travel from Johannesburg to Cape Town, you will spend time with social entrepreneurs to understand the issues facing South Africans today and the range of organizational solutions being employed to confront these challenges. A visit to the rural schoolhouses in Mpumalanga Province provide even broader context on the challenges of reaching a dispersed population of learners and teachers.
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Trip highlights
- Discover innovative school models and education initiatives.
- Interact with innovative philanthropic and nonprofit leaders.
- Visit the Apartheid Museum to improve your understanding of the roots of the racial separation in 20th-century South Africa.
- Visit the African Leadership Academy, a secondary school founded by two GSB alumni.
Faculty Advisor
Francis Flynn, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Research Focus: Interpersonal relations in organizations, healthy patterns of cooperation, and the mitigation of racial and gender stereotyping in the workplace
2010The 2010 trip highlighted innovative models of education, leadership development, and social entrepreneurship in South Africa. |
2009Highlights included an opening meeting with Kim Porteus of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education & Rural Development, University of Fort Hare in East London; and a visit to LEAP Science and Maths School in Langa, outside Cape Town. |
2008Students on the Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa |
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2007The 2007 trip highlighted the importance of education to South Africa’s future:
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“It would be our absolute pleasure to host Stanford students again. Their level of concern for the village, rural life, and their homestay families was palpable. We were pleased that the students asked the difficult and probing questions, particularly on South African politics, to gauge our opinions in an effort to not believe everything that appeared in the press.”
-Shehnaz Cassim, Buffelshoek Trust |
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