I will improve the quality of, education for girls. Putting more female into the higher positions. These female will become and show positive role models to female students, encouraging them to continue with their secondary education. I think the fourteen of us will show positive role models to female students in South Sudan. The grater the presence of female in higher positions, the higher the female students enrollment, attendance, and retention rates. By conducting several training workshop in the Ministry of Education, inviting, (PTA), Parents Teachers Association. Then to the states and to the communities at the grassroots. Deliver information that necessary to translate education into positive life opportunities, and to ensure access to, and importance of, education for girls.

When I go back to South Sudan, my first plan is to hold a consultation meetings with women at my work place, then with those in the communities at all levels. With my knowledge I have learned here at Indiana University, I became well educated, possessing scholar vocabulary in my most valuable lessons, Leadership Philosophy, which will help me be a good leader and exemplary one for tomorrow. Meeting them from the beginning can help me foster collaboration, building trust, and establishing relationships. I believe that a Leader cannot lead without trust, and without trust a Leader cannot accomplish extraordinary things.    

Displacement

Lack of spaces (schools)

As a result of large population of displacement, there is a lack of learning spaces (schools). Many children and adolescents have no access to education because of the large number of displacement. Learning space become a major problem. NGOs do offer alternative basic education at camps, but it is poor schools infrastructure, children were learning under trees, some are under tents, it was so overcrowded. It is really very hard during the rain fall or sun shinning.

Chicago.
Introduction:

Chicago is a big city rich in culture, adorned with stunning architecture, and home to some of the word's finest attraction, such attraction as Hull-House, Sheds Aquarium, The Field Museum. You can enjoy a daytime view of Chicago from Sky deck Chicago at Willis Tower, 103 steps high and 1,000 feet above Lake Michigan and Chicago's majestic skyline.

Hull-House:

This building was not only the private home of Jane Addams but the heart of the Hull-House settlement. The resident originally belonged to Charles Hull. Hull- House have (30) thirty buildings between 1912 - 1913. Because the place was so good and safety Jane Addams used it as her own settlement or resident. Also it is a place where many migration people spread and stay for long time, many population get in and live because it is a safe place. Jane Addams was a hard- working woman, she gave me a courage to be a good leader in my country.

University of Illinois at Chicago, 1956 by Jane Addams, it located within the compound of Hull-House.The University have five main branches, College of Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Business, College of Art and Design.

Mary Rose, I have learn something about her, she was pre-school teacher and the best friend of Jane Adams .  

MCIES - My thoughts

                    Midwest Conference of the

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

                          October 10-11, 2014

                Indiana University, Bloomington

An Attainable Global Perspective by; Robert G. Hanvey

A global perspective is not a quantum, something you either have or don’t have. It is blend of many things and any given individual may be rich in certain elements and relatively lacking in others. The educational goal broadly seen may be to socialize significant collectivities of people so that the important elements of a global perspective are represented in the group. Viewed in this way, a global perspective may be a variable trait possessed in some form and degree by a population, with the precise character of that perspective determined by the specialized capacities, predispositions and attitudes of the group’s members. The implications of this notion, of course, is that diversified talents and inclinations can be encouraged and that standardized educational effects are not required. Every individual does not have to be brought to the same level of intellectual and moral development in order for a population to be moving in the direction of amore global perspective.

He identify five dimensions of a global perspective .These are: 

1. Perspective Consciousness

2. “State of the Planet” Awareness

3. Cross-Cultural Awareness

4. Knowledge of Global Dynamics

5. Awareness of Human Choices

Another topic of my interest is:

The Middle East

The Middle East (Near East) is a term used since the 1900s to mark the area at the juncture of Eurasia, Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. The defines a geographical area but does not have precise borders. The modern Middle East began after World War 1, when the Ottoman Empire, which was allied with the defeated Central Powers, was partitioned into a number of separate nations. Other defining events in this transformation included the establishment of Israel 1948 and the department of European powers, notably Britain and France from the area.

10 THINGS STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: THE MIDDLE EAST

1.      There are many groups in the Middle East. Arabs, Turks, Persians, Jews, Armenians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kurds, Greeks, Assyrians, Azeris, Circassians, Berbers, Nubians, Samaritans, and Turkmens all live in the Middle East.

2.      The Middle East is very diverse in religions, most of which originated there. Islam in its many forms is the largest religion in the Middle East, but Judaism and Christianity are also important. There also minority religions like Bahai, Yazdanism, and Zoroastrianism.

3.      Most Muslims in the Middle East belong to the Sunni sect of Islam. Another sect, Shiite or Shia Islam, is the majority religion in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and Bahrain.

4.      Majority of the Muslims do not live in the Middle East. Over the centuries Islam spread for and wide, through Asia and Africa, and even to parts of Europe.

5.      Languages of the Middle East include languages from Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, and Altaic language families. Arabic, in its numerous varieties, and Persian are most widely spoken in the region.

6.      The 3 largest Middle Eastern economics, according to CIA World Factbook 2013 in terms of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) are Turkey, followed by Iran and Saudi Arabia.

7.      Mass Production of oil began around 1945, with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates having large quantities of oil.

8.      Arab Spring is the wave of demonstrations and protests (non-violent and violent), and civil wars in the Middle East’s mostly Arabic speaking nations that began on December 18, 2010.

9.      History… The world’s earliest civilizations originated in the Middle East: Mesapotamia (Summer, Akkad Assyria and Babylonia) and Egypt.

10.  Current Events… During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, competed to influence regional allies. The United States sought to divert the Arab world from Soviet influence.

The approach that South Sudan should take in developing History Curriculum, is to include peace education and inclusive education. Because, we have been tired of war so, we need peace and prosperity to our new generation. Also South Sudan full with disability, as a consequence of long civil war.By including these two subjects, we will be able to change the mentality of this generation  and generation to come.

My experiences at Indiana been similar or different to the experiences Dr. Julia has.

August 1983, there was tension in the city, Juba. The Sudan people Libration Army/ movement had attacked and killed meny people in Joku, one of the small towns at the Ethiopian border in the Upper Nile Region. Civil war was breaking out. By 1983 Dr. Julia's world had become crashing down. From creation of the Southern regional government in 1972 until her husband lost his position in 1982, Wal served as a government ministry. In that tension situation many people were telling Wal to leave Juba Dr. Julia was the first to tell him that. So, Dr. Julia was forts to leave the country, Juba. she was leaving juba to America under tension, civil war was broke out.
Dr. Julia was suffer a lot to entered America also not easy for her to enroll in the School of Education at Indiana University. Here I am differ from her because, for me it is a golden chance ,I never had a dream like that but, God is great, I thank God for this golden chance. Every things were been prepared for right from Juba up to Indiana, Bloomington, my apartment, bedroom, classroom all my studies facilities.
It is South Sudan Higher Education Initiative for Equity and leadership Development "SSHIELD"is a Project in South Sudan funded by USAID through the Education for Development "HED."It was easy for me to entered America.
My experience at Indiana been similar with Dr. Julia was that, all of us have come to America, and attending classes in Indiana Universiy in  Bloomington. Bloomington is a very nice, quite place all over   were green and clean people were good and their system every where in place. Teachers are knowledgeable, competent, and punctual, I like that system, I will carried it back home. Dr. Julia and I studying  Master's degree at Indiana University.
Also we were different to experience because Julia came with her families., and willing to go back, it is a long journey for her. For me I came as individual for one year course, and I will be back home after one year, or finishing my studies in America.