Fulbright García-Robles US Scholar M3 INITIATIVE

September 1, 2019

Dr. Edmund ’Ted’ Hamann (Professor in TLTE) is spending the Fall of 2019 on a semester-long Fulbright in Tijuana Mexico. There he is looking at cross border higher education partnerships related to teacher education. For 20 years the educational circumstances of children who cross borders, including the responses by teachers and schools, has been a focus of his research. With Baja California (the state where Tijuana is located) hosting 51,000 students born in the US in its preschools, elementary schools, and middle schools, plus several thousand more in high school, and with Baja California schools also hosting 30,000 students born in Mexico who have spent time in US schools, Hamann says, “This state is the hottest hotspot in Mexico to study education and international migration. There’s 500,000 kids all over Mexico who were born in the US who now attend Mexican schools, but 10% of them live in Baja, even though Baja has only 3% of Mexico’s total school enrollment.” He continues, “the task of readying teachers for students who know more English than Spanish, who have had individual tablet computers but now access computers just once a week, is a challenge, or, thought of another way, an opportunity, but only an opportunity if teachers are prepared to recognize and build on what these kids already know.” Hamann is based at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional’s Tijuana Campus and looking at teacher education efforts involving San DIego State University, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and Dartmouth College (among others).

Affiliated faculty:

Ted Hamann and collaborators at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (Unidad Tijuana) and the Sistema Educativa Estatal

Funder/Sponsor:

Fulbright Scholar Program