Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (CELA Belize)
Why choose Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (CELA Belize)?
Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (CELA Belize), founded 2010, offers unique learning experience to students and professionals interested in moving out of their comfort zone. We offer internships, research, service learning projects, home stay opportunities, cultural immersions, and other field courses during summer and winter breaks. Students will experience new knowledge first hand through ...
Center for Engaged Learning Abroad (CELA Belize), founded 2010, offers unique learning experience to students and professionals interested in moving out of their comfort zone. We offer internships, research, service learning projects, home stay opportunities, cultural immersions, and other field courses during summer and winter breaks. Students will experience new knowledge first hand through their field work and community service in Belize. These courses provide intensive, practical experience lessons that create powerful and meaningful learning. We support and deliver custom, faculty-led courses in partnership with colleges and universities throughout North America. Our staff is very creative and can connect local professors, community leaders, and business people to the courses, ...
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Interviews
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Nancy Adamson
Interviewed in 2014
Nancy has 25 years of work in higher education under her belt, from university administration to Provost and President! She’s also a registered nurse!
Nancy Adamson
Interviewed in 2014
What inspired you to travel abroad?
Your programs focus strongly on their best feature – the fact that they are located in stunning Belize! Programs incorporate Belize’s natural beauty and resources. What is your favorite feature of Belize?
Cristina Coc
Interviewed in 2014
Cristina Coc has been an activist for Maya Land Rights and forest conservation since 2003. She has worked directly, over the last 10 years, with the M...
Cristina Coc
Interviewed in 2014
What inspired you to travel abroad?
The first step to establishing a service learning program in Toledo where over half the population is of Maya heritage, is to recognize where a mutually beneficial partnership can be forged. Being able to determine whether or not the partners engaged in service learning have a common goal where one can learn from the experience to better improve their own development, but also provide service to a community in rural Toledo and meet a need that enhances the community well being. Making a suitable match requires that there is a common understanding of the community, its cultural and customary values and way of life, and at the same time understanding the expectation of service learning groups/students, their areas of interest, and expertise.
Filiberto Penados
Interviewed in 2014
Dr. Filiberto Penados, from the village of San Jose Succotz, Cayo, Belize, is an indigenous studies and education scholar and community activist. He c...
Filiberto Penados
Interviewed in 2014
What inspired you to travel abroad?
Well, first of all it is important to note that there are some key underlying elements to our philosophy. The first is that local communities have a wealth of intellectual, material and cultural resources that are or can be mobilized to achieve sustainable well being, and that they know best what well being means to them and should be the ones defining both the pace and direction. Two, that they are engaged in actions that are already pursuing their well being. That sustainability in addition to the conventional focus on environment needs to build on the assets and actions already in process and respond to the aspirations of values of the community. Three, that our engagement with communities needs to be sustained over time and not be a one-time action. It must be based on a long-term partnership. Otherwise, while the specific can be fun and produce the most amazing learning experience for our students it may contribute very little to local communities.
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