It is fine and well to travel to distant lands and help set up educational systems and programs, but if they are not sustainable they are doomed to fail.
So for Annette LaGrange, that long-term sustainability is critical to any program she works on.
LaGrange has been to many regions of the world to help establish educational programs where she discovered the important roles culture and history can play in the classroom and for the ongoing implementation of any new programs.
She joined the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus as associate dean in September. Formerly dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, LaGrange spent seven years helping rebuild the education system in Kosovo, starting in 1999 after the conflict ended.
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LaGrange and fellow UBC Okanagan scholar Susan Crichton are assisting Aga Khan University (AKU) in developing teaching platforms that can reach students in some of the most remote areas on the planet. AKU operates in areas such as in Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of East Africa where getting an education can be a challenge.
LaGrange is helping to develop curriculum that will be stored on tablet hand-held computers designed by her colleagues that are portable, do not need the Internet to operate and can be run from solar power all of which bodes well for long-term sustainability.
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