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ES499 Cross Cultural Issues in Education: Learning Through Listening was a spring break field course that explored the question of why Latinos and African American high school students drop-out of high school? The incipient amalgamation process of the class was to create an environment for all the students in the class to be one. We referred to ourselves as Twenty of One. The "Process" of this transformation was the technique we used in gathering information about this issue of drop-out rates. We learned as the "Process" as we did the "Process." The web sites and addressees given below will be similar to the path we took. Be aware you will not travel in any straight line of thought, but instead be bounced around like a radical atom. The journey will never end once you become a part of the "Process."
The cultural supports within and without the different ethnic cultures, institutions(schools, state and federal governments), and the communities(advocacy groups, parents, church and neighborhoods) are numerous and still children fall through the cracks of the education system. Why? The stakeholders we interviewed throughout the week of March 25-29, 2001 told us there story. All we had to do was listen.
Stop. Listen. Learn to listen to a story that was jammed packed, "Process", and amalgamated into a one week class. (Though the "Process" will be with you for a lifetime.) Stop now, take a deep long breath, one that goes down to your toes and listen. Janis from Oregon State University, Interaction Program provided the class with the most important tool:
Listening:
Listening creates speaking
Listening selectively
Listening to complete a conversation
Here are a few people to listen to:
