Global Teaching and Learning Fellows (GTLF)
The Global Teaching and Learning Fellows in Mexico (GTLF) is an interdisciplinary micro- and meta- study abroad experience for faculty interested in engaging students in global learning.
If you are
- wanting to include more global learning in your teaching,
- thinking about leading a study abroad experience or applying to lead an Iacocca internship, or
- interested in creating immersive learning experiences in the diverse communities of South Side or the Lehigh Valley
and
- wishing you could join a safe and powerful space to reflect on your teaching,
- wondering what your next evolution as an educator might look like, where your learning edge is, and
- pondering how to facilitate global learning with diverse students in culturally complex sites within larger power dynamics,
then the GTLF experience will be of interest. We gather a small group of faculty Fellows chosen from across the colleges to create an interdisciplinary cohort to spend one week learning and immersing into the small city of Guanajuato, Mexico.
we explore the following Big Question:
How do we show up as educators in places not necessarily home to us - with students both like and unlike us, as well as local residents - all of us with our own fears and desires, to create meaningful engagements that positively shape our shared future?
What you'll come away with
- new tools for facilitating, debriefing + sense-making around global learning in situ
- ability to microsope and telescope - look small and look meta in teaching and learning onsite
- capacity to pull activities off the landscape and link to (inter)disciplinary learning
- new relationships with colleagues from across the colleges
- insights about yourself as an educator, your next steps
- new commitments to place, difference + immersive global learning
APPLY NOW
Want more info?
Please join us during International Education Week on Wed., Nov 20th from 2:30-3:30 with several ex-participants as well.
Key dates
Application DUE – Jan. 30, 2025
Decisions sent out – Feb. 10
Orientation REQUIRED – late Feb/March TBD
Departure – Mon, May 19th
ONSITE – May 19-23th
Return - Sat, May 24th
Final reflection due – May 30
2024 Fellows:
click here to view 2024 essays
Brook Sawyer is a Professor in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program, College of Education. Her research centers on enhancing the language and literacy development of preschool-aged children, namely children with disabilities and multilingual learners, through empowering parents and early childhood teachers. Her interest in global teaching and learning is focused on developing immersive or virtual experiences for preservice and inservice teachers to promote culturally and linguistically responsive practices.
Hugo Ceron-Anaya is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University. Ceron-Anaya’s research focuses on analyzing economic elites, primarily in Mexico and Brazil. He authored a book titled "Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico" (Oxford University Press, 2019), which examines social inequalities and privilege in contemporary Mexico. In 2020, his book won the "Outstanding Book Award" by the North American Society for the Study of Sports. In 2021, Ceron-Anaya became a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) in Guadalajara, Mexico. During the fall semester, he conducted research on the role played by local elites in the transformation of urban life in Guadalajara. In 2023, he was granted a Fulbright Specialist award and became a visiting researcher at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, where he participated in a research project on elites, sports, and racial privilege in this nation. At Lehigh, he has taught courses on race and ethnicity in the Americas, sociology of sports, Latinx communities, social theory, and sociology of immigration.
Lilia Adriana Pérez Limón is an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her primary research engages contemporary Mexican culture through the lens of disability. Dr. Pérez Limón is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled Screening Disability: Mexican Documentary Film in the 21st Century. This project considers cultural production in Mexico from the 21stcentury that illuminates the role of media in forming cultural assumptions about ability, the construction of disability via media technologies, and how (dis)abled audiences respond to particular media artifacts.
Renée Bailey is a teaching assistant professor for the Department of English. Primarily, Renée teaches first-year writing and creative nonfiction. Their writing and pedagogy emphasize social justice themes and rhetorical responses to those themes. Renée’s work appears in Midwestern Gothic, Gingerbread House, and others. They were a semi-finalist in the 2019 Key West Literary Seminar’s Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award and a runner-up in the 2019 Francis Ponge Prize for Prose Poetry at The Raw Art Review. Though having lived in the south for 12 years, Renée is originally from Ohio and a lifelong supporter of the Cincinnati Reds.
Stephanie Prevost is a Professor of Practice of Law at Lehigh’s College of Business. Prior to teaching, she held legal and business roles in the private sector, including as COO/General Counsel of a boutique investment advisory firm that focused on utility-scale renewable financing. Stephanie is an active member of the Lehigh Valley community, serving on boards of different non-profits and providing pro bono consulting services to non-profits throughout the greater Philadelphia area.
Thomas Chen is an associate professor of Chinese in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He loves teaching and writing about literature and film.