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Sigue Adelante Educacion uses mainstream and alternative media sources to highlight global interconnectedness and collaboration in Latin America. Sigue adelante is a popular Spanish motivational phrase meaning "keep going/keep it up," and given its motivational implications in Latin America, we've decided to name our blog after it.
Sigue began as an assignment for a course called EDUC 611: Education, Globalization, and Development, taught by Dr. Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. As a side note, she's pretty awesome. In our blog, you may catch us making references to our classwork, readings, or theoretical frameworks; we'll try to parse these out as much as we can in order to benefit the reader's experience. In the meantime, please bear with us! While it began as an assignment, we hope to continue it after we leave the course, as each one of us will be in Latin America (Brazil, Cuba, and Nicaragua) this summer.
You may be asking, why Latin America? Well, thanks to violence associated with drug trafficking and other socio-economic and political situations, Latin America retains a powerful presence in international and national news media. Given current education situations (like the development of UNI-ALBA, an alignment of socialist Latin American governments) and international interest in Latin America (such as issues around the drug trade), our blog will focus on broader themes in globalization and interconnectedness, and how these aspects affect both development and education in Latin America. Entries will attempt to weave themes of interconnectedness, globalization, and development together to indicate how education both is impacted and impacts the themes. Our theory is that everything comes back to education, and that education should be a main focus of policy and practice in Latin America.
Our blog is intended for anyone interested in issues around development, education, and interconnectedness in Latin America, particularly those who are interested in working in international development or have experience living or working in Latin America. We hope to attain readers from all different backgrounds, from students, professors, and practitioners to those who are citizens of Latin American countries, and live and work in Latin America. We hope that our readers will actively participate in our blog as we navigate issues around development, globalization, interconnectedness, and education present in the media about Latin America.
Thank you for reading, and we welcome all comments, questions, and suggestions!
Un abrazo,
Evan, Jaime, Jeannie, y Jennifer
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