Tag: Travel

Global Education Beyond the Classroom: Engaging the World through Scholarship

For many years, I have challenged myself to advocate for global education and international studies across the world. I have read many books, travelled on my own, and…

Enjoy Your Life

Hong Kong is a prosperous and fast-paced city. Last month, i went to Peng Chau, which is an outlying island, to get away from the stress of the…

Preserving Tradition and Embracing Change

This was my fourth trip to Georgia since 2016 and each trip I have noticed a slow-and-steady increase in the amount of “western” influence in the city. From…

Scotland the Brave and The Flower of Scotland: A Wee Moment with Huge Impact

We tend to remember “firsts” in our lives. Hopefully we recognize the importance and value of experiences as we live through them. My first travel overseas was as…

Parts Unknown, or How a Great Mind Taught Us to Be Better

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom … is realizing how small…

Le Magic School Bus

No, it wasn’t the real Magic School Bus from the books and TV. But one of my most poignant humanities moments did happen on a bus. And I…

Keeping the Otavalenos Culture

My Humanities Moment started when I moved with my family from Utah to Ecuador in July 2019. My family is originally from Venezuela but moved to the United…

Beauty in the Bull

This past summer, I traveled to Seville, Spain, with my family. One of the oldest traditions in Seville and many other parts of Spain is bull fighting. While…

A Memorable Experience in Seville, Spain

This summer I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful country of Spain with my granddaughter, grandson, daughter and son. On past vacations, observing the cultures of other…

How Baseball Leads to Profound Moments

This past summer, my son was offered an opportunity to represent the United States and play baseball in Belgium and Holland. Naturally, I took one for the team…

Turning Historical Events into Modern Reflective Inquiries

For years, every time we covered World War II and the Holocaust in school it was just a fact memorization activity. “Hitler was bad and did bad things.”…

The Inca Trail

Sure, I had studied the Incas in school. I knew about Machu Picchu or I thought that I did. “You cannot judge a man until you walk a…

Scottish Highlands

I’ve always loved to travel, and one of my favorite parts is getting to have a connection to the place that in our classrooms we refer to in…

Don’t Understand Me Too Quickly

Fresh out of graduate school, Jon Parrish Peede embraced the chance to travel, arriving in Eastern Europe during the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. A last-minute decision to see the…

For the First Time It Felt Like Someone Was Writing about Me

English teacher Justin Parmenter describes how his encounters with essays by Thoreau and Emerson, and later with the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” helped…

My Service in the Navy Sparked a Lifelong Interest in Other Cultures

Teacher Lou Nachman discusses how his experiences overseas in the Navy changed him from an indifferent student to embrace life as a teacher and enthusiastic traveler. For Nachman,…

From Los Angeles to Guadalajara

Craig Watson, former director of the California Arts Council, reflects on the storytelling aspect of the humanities and the time he spent as a teenager in Guadalajara exploring…

The World from My View

I have traveled many places and have tried to capture what I found unique, beautiful and different. But, this place, along the Bosporus Strait which merges the European…