REBECCA GALEANO Galeano teaches courses in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Foreign/ Second Language Teaching Methodology. Aside from working with teachers in the U.S., she has also helped prepare pre-service and inservice language teachers in Mexico and Peru for the last six years. Galeano currently serves as coordinator of the M.O.S.T programs in ESOL and Foreign Language Education and coordinates undergraduate ESOL programs. Her areas of research interest include childhood bilingualism, the development of articulated proficiency based K-12 foreign language programs, and foreign language teacher attitudes toward integrating
culture into language curricula. Currently, Galeano is working on a school reform project with Centros Rurales de Formacion en Alternancia in the Loreto Region in Peru. This school system serves multilingual indigenous students from rural areas in the Peruvian Amazon. She also collaborates on international teacher education projects with FORMABIAP: Programa de Formación de Maestros Bilingües de la Amazonía Peruana. In collaboration with Juan Carlos Galeano from the FSU Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, she co-directs the FSU International Study/Service Abroad Program in Iquitos Peru.
PETER EASTON Over the last two decades, Easton has participated in a variety of research and professional activity overseas including study of: • systems for local capacity development in the Sahelian countries of Africa; • the development of adult education and literacy programs in Africa; • programs to eliminate female genital mutilation in Senegal, Mali and the Sudan for the Wallace Global Fund; • educational programs for street and working children in Brazil and Kenya, plus supervision/ execution of the study in Kenya; • radio education programs in Haitian primary schools for the Education Development Centre;
• vocational education in Morocco and Indonesia for the World Bank; and • costs of the Room to Read girls’ educational enhancement program in Sri Lanka for the American Institutes of Research. Easton has also helped a number of his doctoral students complete research overseas for their dissertations. A considerable part of Easton’s international work has been carried out for overseas professional or international organizations. Much of his post-Peace Corps work in Niger and Mali was undertaken as a member of a French development assistance organization, l’Institut de Recherche et d’Application des Méthodes de Développement (IRAM), headquartered in Paris.
MICKEY DAMELIO, SANDRA LEWIS & MARY FRANCIS HANLINE
Lewis and Hanline serve on the board of directors for Ability Beyond the Horizon, a nonprofit organization established by Damelio that provides support to people in developing countries who teach people who are blind or visually impaired to be more independent. Two years after launching the organization, Damelio made his first international impact trip to Bangalore, India. Damelio embarked on a second international venture last summer at Devnar School for the Blind in Hyderabad, India. This May, Ability Beyond the Horizon plans to sponsor three students from the Visual Disabilities program for their next international service trip to Bermuda.
JAMES SAMPSON
Sampson recently did a study tour to schools in Jyvaskyla, Finland. He is also a visiting professor of Educational Psychology (with specializations in career and educational planning, as well as information and communications technology) at the University of Jyvaskyla. Additionally, he is a visiting professor of Career Development and Management, International Centre for Guidance Studies, School of Education and Social Science, University of Derby, Derby, England.
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