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Since 2006 Living Earth has been working with the communities on the North Slope of Alaska to help to promote the sustainable development of the area. Working in particular with the schools to promote effective education for the local communities.
As part of this programme Living Earth has developed an exchange programme between the North Slope and Aberdeenshire, Scotland to promote shared learning between teachers, student and the wider community.
These two regions are miles apart but have a number of similar issues and challenges, namely rurality, the importance of traditional local culture, the impact of the development of the oil industry in the regions, and the various social environmental and economic issues that arise from that. |
Barrow, Alaska
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Banff, Aberdeenshire
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Jana Harcharek, in Banff Academy, Aberdeenshire
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This programme aims to facilitate an exchange of ideas and realities to promote effective education for the local communities, encouraging the development of confidence and self-esteem amongst the young people and promoting cultural understanding and awareness of and in both regions. |
The programme takes a 3-pronged approach incorporating academic, cultural and vocational elements.
Within the programme there will be self-sustaining ‘pockets’ of teacher-to-teacher
interaction, incorporating exchanges of resources and ideas, as well as actual teacher exchanges to both regions every year, in time this will incorporate a student exchange.
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| In October 2007, five education teachers from North Slope Alaksa travelled to Aberdeebshire to visit local schools there. This visit was returned in February 2008 as four Aberdeenshire teachers visited the North Slope and participated in artistic workshops. The success of these first two visits paved the way for a third exchange in May 2008 as 5 more North Slope teachers ventured to Aberdeenshire to learn and share teaching methods.
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Banff Academy students' welcome notes to the visitors from Alaska
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Read the report of the most recent visit (May 2008) here.
Read a press article from North Slope's paper The Arctic Sounder detailing the February 2008 visit here.
Read a full report of the October 2007 trip here.
For more information on the project contact Katherine May, Living Earth Programme Coordinator |
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