William R. Leon
Cairn
Webmaster©2005
Webmaster©2004-05
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Euro-Asia
Transcultural Cultural Immersion Volunteer
Options
Coaching , Experiential Seminars and
Training Online Consultancy for helping academic exchange and new
graduates, postgraduates or experienced professionals to get
training and find jobs
Cairn Erasmus is
a personalized cultural
immersion e-learning and communication gateway for parents,
teachers, and postgraduate research students. It offers
selected online courses and field-research resources focused
on Asian LDCs development priorities and intervention
research niches, such as in HRD Capacity Building,
e-Marketing, NLPIII, Humanitarian Intervention, Clinical
Anthropology, Prospective Anthropology, Tibetan Traditional
Healing Psychotherapy, Counselling, Remediation,
etc... Being certified as Cross-cultural Awareness
Postgraduate personal research or training projects, within
a flexible menu, Cairn options are organized from the
SXC/Cairn KTM selected resources, based in Nepal, northern
India, Tibet TAR China, Canada, USA, UK and
EU.
Cairn Academic Coaching is a
personalized program and is offered one-on-one by
appointment.
Together, you and your personal
academic coach will assess your vision of things you want to
achieve during your Postgraduate and Doctorate Studies, the
expectations of your academic supervisors and professors, the
demands in courses material, the risks the contextual research
involves, your learning strengths, the logistics required, the
areas which you will need to investigate, and the best
strategies to use in each of your assignements. Your academic
coach can help you improve your data gathering and analysis,
Asian target-groups cultural immersion, taking, writing
and reporting structure, public speaking, self-management,
time management, dbase online reading, field- preparation, and
strategic sites strategies.
In addition to personal
help with learning strategies for development being relevant
in an Asian context, Cairn coaching team will assist research
students in translating, accessing and applying methodology
abiding to the EU scholarships, such as the Erasmus Mundus
Asia, etc...
Cairn
International Studies
Cairn International Studies will improve
European students' ability to work in an increasingly
globalized environment in Nepal and surrounding Asia. The goal
is to prepare European students and trainees for focused
international tasks, promote interactive and communicative
skills and encourage an open and receptive attitude towards
the Himalayan region ethnic cultures. Cairn Euro-Asian Network
will further increase opportunities for internships,
field-research and online studies within an international
dimension and with selected international experts
cooperation.
Cairn Cross-Cultural
Awareness program stresses that for an Euro-Asian
cross-cultural training to be effective as an enhancement for
an international development organization, it must deal with
several complexities in the learning process, including that
of providing flexible options for genuine Projects-based
Cultural Immersion. Just providing information, or some online
courses, is not an effective approach for the future
Euro-Asian relations, beyond that of a basic introductory
level.
Cairn believes that such
training should be an interactive intercultural process,
through the use of flexible training modules being a menu of
Cultural Immersion Options organized in strategic
target-sites, where the behavioral situation, case studies,
scenarios, critical incidents, catharsis and crisis
resolution, will bring to participants and beneficiaries
focused and longterm results.
Cairn is also launching a stepwise
development of a Mixed Mode Postgraduates and Masters
ECDL/ECTS Certification centered around disciplines initiated
from the EU partners units and linked with the pressing issues
of Nepal/Asian LDCs Development Management. This unique mode
of study allows students the flexibility to study through a
combination of residential home courses in the EU, field-study
in Asia, group sessions and flexible distance learning.
The recommended pattern of study starting in 2004/2005 is
currently under-design, for the following
options.
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Jobs, study and training for
European
Postgraduates in Asia 
" In the future,
interesting jobs will move to Asia! See with us how to
really work in Asia!..."
________________ Innovative programme ________________
Cairn offers academic
and non-academic options, open to
all...
Nepal /
Himalayan Region
Field-study
Itineraries
click
here!
CAIRN also organizes non-credit specialization
field-study certificates
in
Nepal/Himalayan Region for clinical professionals and
scholars
En
bref
Objectifs
et public visé
 Formation ouverte pour les agents futurs du
post-développement et des relations entre l' Europe et
l' Asie.
Cette nouvelle orientation est plus spécialement
destinée aux responsables actuels ou potentiels de
programmes et projets de développement, confrontés sur
le terrain aux multiples problèmes que pose la
réussite des projets de développement NGOs, privés ou
publics en Asie. Elle vise également à promouvoir une
autre visibilité des activités et ressources
Européenne en Asie.
Conçue par Cairn KTM en vue et sous l' égide des
nouveaux programmes European Commission / Erasmus
Mundi et Asia-Link (revised Guidelines Y2005), elle
s'argumente à partir des outils d' une pédagogie
inspirée de la FOPES et du CAIRN/LAAP, donc
volontairement innovatrice, et intégrant le "Open
Learning Adult Continuous Education Online" (le
système de gestion ICT-/VLE de la pédagogie online
Internet :e-tutors), les Multimedia Database, "l
' Immersion Culturelle" (Field-study Cultural
Immersion) et la gestion inter- universitaire, inter-
facultaire et inter- disciplinaire de "joint-
curriculum options". Conçu pour projets de recherche
ou d'études personnalisées (Open Learning Menu
Options) d' un niveau post-graduats EU: Masters et
Doctorats, une Menu des thèmes principaux (priorities)
et ressources opérationelles online est proposés aux
participants. Le
Cairn/SXC joint-programme est déjà entièrement
opérationnel au Népal. Depuis la fin des années 80, il
a été testé en continu lors de la supervision de
groupes de recherches individuelles. En tant que module d' éducation continue, il
s'adresse donc à la fois aux étudiants, chercheurs,
gestionnaires NGOs/SMEs, coordinateurs, cadres
administratifs ou techniques du développement,
impliqués et/ou intéressés par l 'Asie en général, et
motivé par la nécéssité d'une intervention plus
éthique requise dans le cadre actuel pressant des
régions stratégiques du Népal et de l' Himalaya, en
particulier. Il se déroule principalement en Anglais,
quoique les langues locales peuvent bien sûr être
également étudiées …
Programme
Contenu Ce
programme dure de deux à quatre ans, en partie sur base
des facilités access to Open Learning Online Tutoring
& Dbase, d' autre part sur le terrain de l'
intervention en Asie. Le Open Learning Online consiste
dans la gestion interactive d'un menu de cours et/ou de
la documentation online recouvrant les options du
programme, dont le e-coaching/tutoring se déroule à date
et horaire fixe convenus entre les formateurs et les
participants. Les stages "Internship" et "Field-study
Cultural Immersion" au Népal/Asie se déroulent selon une
organisation par batch (groupes à themes). Les
étudiants/chercheurs inscrits dans cette orientation
sont tenus de produire des research papers (essay),
valant comparativement la durée de cours crédits
ECTS/ECDL equivalente à 945 h au total (ou toute autre
définition de crédits jugée satisfaisante selon les
objectifs facultaires) :
- Euro-Asia Joint-curriculum
Options
- Cross-cultural Awareness
Priorities
- Online Tutoring & Multimedia
Dabase
- Field-Research Cultural Immersion in
Asia
- Analyse de l'environnement des
projets
- Gestion des projets de
développement en groupe
- Conception, formulation et évaluation
participative des
projets.
Organisation
Opérationnel dés 2004 à CAIRN/SXC KTM
Népal, contact: <leon@sped.ucl.ac.be>
Postgraduate Options réparties de 2 à 4
années: Open Learning /
ECTS/ECDL.
A l' UCL/ANSO/LAAP (Prof.
M. Singleton) et FOPES: à partir de janvier
2005.
Mémoire de fin d'études
publié Online, avec débouché possible niveau Ecole
Doctorale.
Joint- Postgraduate
Programme CAIRN/SXC et Université de Louvain, LLN,
Belgique
Financement - Coût des
études
Le programme proposé par CAIRN Consortium
EU-NGO est conçu en relation avec les bourses d'études
du projet EC- Erasmus Mundus, prévues pour 2006;
auparavant, les candidats intéressés doivent prendre
contact avec CAIRN et trouver un
financement. |
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Nepal /
Himalayan Region
Field-study
Itineraries
click
here!
CAIRN also organizes non-credit specialization
field-study certificates
in
Nepal/Himalayan Region for clinical professionals and
scholars
News
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New Postgraduate
Options in Euro-Asian Cross-Cultural
Awareness |
30/09/2004 |
| Cairn
is offering a new interdisciplinary postgraduate
programme for exploring the current diversity and
strategic issues raised by cultural differences between
Asian and European people. To know local values,
attitudes and belief systems (KABP), as they may apply
to the decision making process in the ethnic and castes
context of Asia, is of tremendous importance for the
success of any venture, development aid- mission or job,
as well as for knowing what consequences they can have
on core issues in education, social/health intervention,
crisis remediation, international collaboration
business, or in the daily life, for those who work
with/in Asia.
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| Drawing
from the closely related disciplines of psychology,
sociology and anthropology, the programme will
familiarise postgraduate students and researchers with
the context and nature in cultural changes
affecting Asian contemporary ethnic groups and
societies, through examining experientially through a
personalized cultural immersion or field-research
project what are the current impacts in the
social/health and education sectors, in post-development
intervention (NGOS), in current cheap labour migration
and international business, as well as on
individuals.
While this core
programme is the only one of its kind presented online,
it draws its originality and credibility on more than 15
years daily involvement in strategic issues of the
Himalayan regions, on the prevailing misconceptions in
the West on core decision making issues and on the
urgency to upgrade awareness on the values, attitude and
beliefs for a better future. This programme is aimed at
both new postgraduates, professionals (NGOs, SMEs and
HEIs) and those currently in research projects or
envisioning employment with links with Asia. It provides
research-orientated teaching online and in situ direct
supervision in Asia, and can be studied full time (one
to three years) or part time on a day release basis (two
to five years). Research options are presented within
the Open Menu Modules
(click
here)
Postgraduates and
research applicants of this scheme will possess the
experiential background and professional skills
necessary to work efficiently in Asia, in a wide range
of careers of an increasingly global and multicultural
society.
The new scheme will
be taught using both Cultural Immersion (Tour&Study)
in selected strategic sites in Asia, as well as the
usual combination of online courses, lectures, seminars,
group work and practical fieldwork, including a
dissertation. Students will be continuously assessed by
tutors online on the basis of their essays, report
writing and presentation of portfolios. There are no
examinations for this programme, as the final aim is
based on personalized experiential and tailored project
which fulfilment will require genuine and continuous
efforts on the ground...
Applicants should
have a degree in a related subject and/or relevant
professional qualifications and experience. This scheme
is under the ECTS/ECDL Adult Continuous Education
/ Open Menu European Certification Guidelines &
Policy. (For more details click
here)
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Cairn Consortium academic network resources and
facilities in Nepal, India, Europe, UK- and Canada are
also open to all Asian postgraduates &
trainees
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Nepal /
Himalayan Region
Field-study
Itineraries
click
here!
CAIRN also organizes non-credit specialization field-study
certificates
in
Nepal/Himalayan Region for clinical professionals and
scholars
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