Some may like to know what the graduates of the program I attended at Harvard do. I hit upon this link while googling "early headstart" - for a position in DC working under this US govt program auspices.
The details are below but it confirms two things - first - there are negligible number of Indians who attended this program (even Pak did better). Second, those who did have chosen to merely 'sponge up' the existing knowledge about Education practices and use them to improve Indian edu - esp in rich elite schools like Doon School, Modern School. http://www.idiscoveri.com/people_say.htm Not that its bad - trickle down theory would say that it is also a good idea. But it would have been even better if they had learnt to fish (do own research on edu. best practices in India) rather than take the fish (current research knowledge at Harvard etc) from a Good Samartian on a continuous basis.
Piracy -- innovation
This trend is very much the way Indians do they hi-tech piracy/adoption. Everything is imported from West- from fashion designs to movie scripts amd music lyrics to auto tech. But now that recently hi-tech research has started even in India with leading global companies turining to India for support -- it would be fitting that Indians started doing research in Education. Currently it is limited to data crunching and some on socio-logical issues. However, just like Indian techies first stormed the bastions of Western research instutions before helping build capacity in India for continuosly hi-tech globally competitive research.
Similarly in school education also Indians should engage in developing awareness and skills in research and teaching practices in the West - and storm their research institutions. Later, only one can think of
building capacity in India.
Down below are details of graduates of IEP. I was lucky that I was abe to view this before I applied to the program in 2003. It had then just been put up on the Harvard website (no longer there) and gave me an idea about what to highlight in my essay (and what to hide) about myself. Many things may seem complex - just like opening a book on Quantum Physics while being just grade 8 pass.
Umesh
PS: Mariali -mentioned at the end of this page married a guy who later became a friend and classmate of mine.
[Frgraduates-list] The IEP Alumni Directory is here!!!
Barbara Perlo perloba at gse.harvard.edu
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Many, many thanks to Leanna Marr for her diligence in creating the attached IEP Directory. Be sure to point "missing" alum to Leanna so that our Directory remains accurate and bountiful! We are a tremendous resource to one another so stay in touch!! -Barbara Perlo IEP Coordinator International Education Alumni Directory Updated August 2003 Class of 1991 Barbara Gaerlan Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1991 Current Position: Assistant Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies 657 S. Cochran Ave. #401 Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA E-mail: bgaerlan at international.ucla.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Philippines Japan Bio: Barbara taught at the college level and took graduate courses in the Philippines in the 1970s. After HGSE, she completed a Ph.D. in Education at UCLA in 1998 writing a dissertation on the history of the University of the Philippines from the point of view of language of instruction. She received a post-doctoral fellowship in Osaka, Japan and since 1999 has been the Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. The Center's website is www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/. In 2001 Barbara was the founding Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program in the Philippines. Class of 1992 Roy Guyton Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. International TIE 1992 Current Position: Academic Computing Coordinator Harvard Graduate School of Education 20 Tufts Street, Apartment 201 Arlington, MA 02474 USA E-mail: roy at post.harvard.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Spain, Costa Rica and Columbia Bio: Roy Guyton was born in Oregon City, Oregon and is a fifth generation Oregonian. He graduated from Willamette University in Salem OR in 1983 with a BA and double major; Modern Spanish Literature & International Studies. From 1983 to ýý88 he worked and lived in Washington DC, working for USPIRG and Research Triangle Instituteýýs DC office supporting epidemiological studies. In 1988 he became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica. He served from 1988 to ýý91, and worked on revamping the testing process for first and second cycle adult education exams. He was a USAID representative reviewing and approving grants for school refurbishment and construction projects, a tutor for the national computer education program administered by Ministry of Education (MEP) and the Omar Dengo Foundation (FOD) and was a member of the traveling Peace Corps Basketball team. In 1991 he came to GSE and graduated with an Ed.M in TIE in 1992. From 1992 to 1993 Roy worked in Cambridge Public Schools. Starting in 1993 he started his employment at GSE. >From 1993 to present he has been an active participant in discussion and urban community technology projects in Boston. Since 1995 he has been one of the Teaching Assistants for a Harvard Extension School course that teaches individuals how to properly use the basic computer applications. Roy has been reviewing grants for the US Department of Education for the past two years. He enjoys practicing karate and running. In 1998 he married his wife in China whom he met while a student at GSE. Roy has traveled extensively in Europe, Central & South America, and China. He continues to take courses at Harvard Universityýýs Extension School and is working towards his Certificate of Advance Study in Technology. Class of 1993 Francis Bediako Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1993 Current Position: SELF-EMPLOYED 87 MAIN STREET HOLDEN, MA 01520 USA E-mail: oyokobediako at yahoo.com Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: GHANA, SOUTH AFRICA, GERMANY John Carfora Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1993 Current Position: Director, Office for Sponsored Programs, Boston College P.O. Box 959 Brookline, MA 02446 USA E-mail: carfora at bc.edu Nationality: US Citizen Countries where I have lived and worked: England, The Netherlands (Holland), Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Switze Ann Lazerson Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1993 Current Position: CEO of small suburban household! 20 Marshall Terrace Wayland, MA 01778 USA E-mail: anneandenrique at comcast.net Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua Stephen Tournas Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. 1993 Current Position: Computer-Assisted Learning Specialist U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) 1335 Wallach Pl NW Washington, DC 20009-4450 USA E-mail: stournas at usaid.gov Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Bosnia, Botswana, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa Bio: Stephen Tournas designs and manages technology-mediated learning projects for USAID's economic Growth, Agriculture & Trade Bureau. Specializing in computer-assisted learning, he came to USAID with extensive teaching experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sub-Saharan Africa. Class of 1994 Alice Gail Bier Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1994 Current Position: Executive Director, Center for International Studies, Tulane University Center for International Studies,Tulane University, 116 Newcomb Hall New Orleans, LA 70118 USA E-mail: abier at tulane.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: I have lived or worked in 30 countries in Africa, Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe. Bio: Dr. Alice Gail Bier is the Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at Tulane University where her duties include international program development, coordination of university-wide international policies and procedures, strategic planning, and the development and administration of long term study abroad programs. Bier taught and been an administrator in public and private universities in Spain and the U.S., and has worked with national and international education organizations. Begining with pre-doctoral work, Dr. Bier researched the demographic impact on urban growth and political change in Spain, taught Sociology at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, served as an advisor on U.S. higher education and was the Delegate in Barcelona for the Spanish Fulbright Commission. In addition, she was a short order cook, translater, English teacher and copy editor of books on stained glass, glucogens and urban planning. In 1993, Bier returned to the U.S. and attended Harvard completing an EdM degree in Aministrative Planning and Social Policy after which she accepted the position Director of the Office of International Programs at the University of Akron (Ohio). In 1998, Bier became the Executive Director of the Center for International Studies at Tulane University. Bier has published and presented in the areas of higher education, international education, social change and migration. She holds degrees from Cornell (PhD, MA), Harvard (EdM) and the University of Washington (BA). Her native languge is English, is fluent in Spanish and has working knowledge of French and Catalan. She thoroughly enjoys her work in international education, exploring natural and urban environments, bicycling, music, cats, travel, food and friends. Sabrina Thomas Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1994 Current Position: Attorney in transition 4464 67th Street Sacramento, CA 95820 USA E-mail: lizzielegal at yahoo.com Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Kenya Class of 1995 Kristine Dunne Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1995 Current Position: Associate Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC 1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 804 Bashford Lane Alexandria, VA 22314 USA E-mail: kjcdunne at yahoo.com Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: USA, Republic of Ireland / Northern Ireland Charissa Fernandez Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1995 Current Position: Director of Funded Programs, The After-School Corporation 610 West 142nd Street #3H New York, NY 10031 USA E-mail: cfernandez at tascorp.org Nationality: USA-Jamaican Countries where I have lived and worked: USA, Jamaica Sajida Shroff Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP, IE 1995 Current Position: Senior Consultant EdWorx 23210 Plantation Drive Atlanta, GA 30324 USA E-mail: shshroff at yahoo.com Nationality: Canadian Countries where I have lived and worked: USA, Canada, Kenya, UK, Spain, Morocco, India, Pakistan, France Bio: Sajida is an Educational and Organizational Development consultant based in Atlanta. She has extensive experience in both corporate and non-profit arenas. Her clients have included consulting firms, financial firms, schools and universities. She is also completing her MBA at the Goizueta Business School, Emory University. Class of 1996 Michele Gordon Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1996 Current Position: International Student Advisor at Georgia Institute of Technology 34 Finch Trail Atlanta, GA 30308 USA E-mail: mgordon64 at hotmail.com Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: UK:study France:work China:vol Czechoslovakia, USSR, Holland, Denmark, Hungary:short term vol Cathryn Magno Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1996 Current Position: Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership Southern Connecticut State University 404 11th Street Apt 2R Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA E-mail: magnoc1 at southernct.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: France, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Israel, Latvia, Mongolia, Bosnia Bio: Cathryn has a background in human rights and education. She currently teaches at Southern CT State University and Teachers College, where she focuses on leadership development, program evaluation and equity in educational policy. She consults for organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, where, prior to teaching full-time, she developed a national program for resettled refugee women and youth from Africa and the Middle East. She has recently co-authored a policy paper on gender equity in the former Soviet Union for the Open Society Institute, and has published a book on gender, education and democracy, called New Pythian Voices. Prior to attending HGSE in 1995, Cathryn was a researcher at the UN Centre for Human Rights and did death penalty defense investigation. She also taught adult ESL in both NYC and the West Bank. Now she is active in childrenýýs rights organizations in New York City and continues to research and write on gender, politics, migration and education, taking new interest in educational issues in metropolitan America, given her dual location in NYC and New Haven, CT. Class of 1997 Cristopher Cavanaugh Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1997 Current Position: Head of the Russian Representative Office International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Gazetny Pereulok 5, 6th floor Moscow, 125993 Russian Federation E-mail: chris at irex.ru Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Czech Republic Antonio Cicioni Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IE 1997 Current Position: Urquiza 828 Acassusso, Buenos Aires 1640 Argentina E-mail: acicioni at yahoo.com Nationality: Argentinian Countries where I have lived and worked: Argentina and United States Vanessa Castro Cardenal Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.D. APSP 1998 Current Position: Consultant. I work mostly as an evaluator of primary school´s educational quality. P O Box 527444 Nica box 133 Miami, FL 33152 USA E-mail: wheelcas at ibw.com.ni Nationality: Nicaraguense Countries where I have lived and worked: I live in Nicaragua. I have worked in Paraguay, Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador. Bio: My life has been long I am about to be fifty in a few months. As a young person I engaged in the nicaraguan revolutionary movement to overthrow the Somoza Dicatorship. In the middle of that turmoil I managed to graduate from the University of Texas when I was 20. Part of my undergraduate work was done in the Nicaraguan National University, I got a BA in sociology. Since 1974 besides working underground for FSLN and had a legal life as an educator. I worked in Nicaraguan Popular Markets teaching literacy to adult women and promoting their organization, I also worked in Costa Rica in education. After 1979 I served as a representative in the National Assembly for two years,(it was boring), and assumed responsibility for creating a network of alternative schools for rural leaders and political leaders who hadnýýt achieved formal education. I was the coordinator of a team which organized distance education for high schoolýýand universityýýs drop outs, and also intensive primary school for peasants who hadn?t graduated from basic education. After 1990 I organized an NGO to promote democracy, community development and civic education. I am still a member of the directive board but since being a student in Harvard have been doing consultancy jobs in the area of evaluation. I have a marvelous family. Two sons and a daughter, a husband with whom I have been married for 27 years and who I met underground. Three sisters, and two wonderful parents. Class of 1998 Papa Diop Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1998 Current Position: Site Manager of the Perkins Community Center, an Adult Education Program. PO Box 2259 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 USA E-mail: psdiop at post.havard.edu Nationality: Senegalese Countries where I have lived and worked: Senegal (West Africa) Taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Class of 1999 Sarina Corsi Completed Summer 2003 Survey: Ed.M. IE 1999 Current Position: E-mail: sarina_corsi at post.harvard.edu Nationality: Countries where I have lived and worked: Joshua Hawley Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.D. APSP 1999 Current Position: Assistant Professor, Workforce Development and Education Policy, The Ohio State University 1111 Woodmere Road Columbus, OH 43220 USA E-mail: hawley.32 at osu.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Thailand, Uganda, Ethiopia Naoshi Kira Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.D. IE/APSP 1999 Current Position: Associate Professor, Shukutoku University, Japan 2-16-15 Gakuen Higashikurume, Tokyo Japan E-mail: naoshi_kira at post.harvard.edu Nationality: Japanese Countries where I have lived and worked: Japan, the United States, Indonesia, Thailand Bio: Naoshi Kira is interested in democratic education in two dimensions. On the one hand, he is interested in participatory educational practices at the school and classroom levels, envisioned by John Dewey. One the other hand, he is also interested in system-level democratization, such as decentralization of education systems. His doctoral dissertation was on the practices of a democratic school in the U.S., which he finished in 1999. He found that good human relationships between students and teachers based on mutual respect and trust were the basis of the democratic schooling, in addition to giving students a say in what happens to their own education. Before coming to HGSE, he worked for the World Bank mostly on education and training projects in Indonesia. Currently, he enjoys teaching English and education courses as an associate professor at Shukutoku University's College of Cross-Cultural Communication and Business, located in Saitama in Japan. He now lives in Tokyo, and his hobby is bird-watching. Kathy McBride Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IEP 1999 Current Position: Central America Regional Director of the Center for Global Education/Augsburg College Apartado Postal 3868 Managua, Nicaragua E-mail: kamarona at ibw.com.ni Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Peru,Venezuela,Nicaragua,Guatemala,El Salvador, Mexico,Thailand,Puerto Rico,Dominican Republic Milagros Nores Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. APSP 1999 Current Position: Research Assistant. National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education. Teachers College Box 181, 525 West 102th str. New York, NY 10025 USA E-mail: mnores at post.harvard.edu Nationality: Argentinian Countries where I have lived and worked: Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, United States Bio: Bio: I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. studies in Education and Economics at Teachers College, Columbia University. My interests include comparative education, poverty and education, development economics and economics and education. Homepage: http:\\www.geocities.com\milinores Class of 2000 Jennifer Anastasoff Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. IEP 2000 Current Position: Founder and President, BuildingBlocks International 3420 Pierce St. #1 San Francisco, CA 94123 USA E-mail: jennifer_anastasoff at ksg03.harvard.edu Nationality: USA Countries where I have lived and worked: Chile, US, Mexico Bio: Jennifer Anastasoff is founder of a small international development non-profit based on the venture philanthropy model with other Harvard and Tufts graduates. While at Harvard, Ms. Anastasoff organized "A Dialogue on Education Standards" along with five other students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She also interned as a research assistant with the Office of the Attorney General in Massachusetts. Previously, Ms. Anastasoff served as an educational consultant for the Higher Education Committee of the California State Assembly as a California Assembly Fellow, a sixth grade teacher in Houston, Texas and a group home counselor for emotionally disturbed youth. Ms. Anastasoff has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and Cultural Anthropology (Honors) from the University of California, Irvine. Her hobbies include salsa, bicycling, and crocodile wrestling. Maria Barajas Completed Summer 2003 Survey: Ed.M. IEP 2000 E-mail: Maria_barajas at post.harvard.edu Bio: As a Pre-Law and Sociology major with a minor in Spanish graduate of Oberlin College, Ms. Barajas is interested in bilingual policy. While an undergraduate, she worked as an educational consultant and assistant to the Executive Director of the Center for Leadership in Education: an opportunity that involved team building, strategic planning and development of academic standards. Her further involvement with the volunteer programs in the local Latino community resulted in an Oberlin College Community Action Fellowship award in education. Ms. Barajas also received a Mellon Minority Fellowship to research bilingual and English as a Second Language education policy in the United States that allowed her to examine extensively the complications of language-minority education policy in the US. Currently, she is conducting research on issues of power and ideology and how these elements connect or collide to form policy and pedagogy. Shauna Cagan Completed Summer 2003 Survey: Ed.M. IEP 2000 Current Position: Staff Assistant, HGSE E-mail: shauna_cagan at harvard.edu Manuel Carballo Completed Summer 2003 Survey: Ed.M. IEP 2000 Current Position: Education Consultant, Costa Rica E-mail: carballo_manuel at yahoo.com Mariali Cardenas Completed Summer 2003 Survey: YES Ed.M. L&T 2000 Current Position: Director of Education and Development, Tecnologico de Monterrey Medardo de la Pena, 703 Col. San Isidro Saltillo, Coahuila 25210 Mexico E-mail: mariali at post.harvard.edu Nationality: Mexican Countries where I have lived and worked: Mexico Chile United States Venezuela France Bio: Mariali Cardenas, M. Ed. is Director of Education and development in the Division of Social Programs at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. There she has helped to strengthen the strategy of intervention in order to broaden the impact of education upon social development. She is particularly interested in strategies to promote equality in the distribution of educational opportunities. Prior to joining the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Ms. Cardenas designed educational programs for development in impoverished rural communities of Mexico. During her studies in Harvardýýs Graduate School of Education, she focused on the relationship between quality, educational opportunities and social change. Ms. Cardenas has done research in several countries of Latin America, such as Chile, Venezuela and El Salvador, regarding innovative strategies for teaching and learning. Her current work focuses on linking education and technology to disadvantaged populations.
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