LEARNING EXCHANGES INCLUDE: (1) GUIDED TRAVEL TO IMPORTANT REGIONAL CULTURAL SITES; (2) INTERDISCIPLINARY-CREATIVE WORKSHOPS; (3) MEALTIME CONVERSATIONS; AND (4) AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO READ, WRITE AND REFLECT IN STUNNING NATURAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES.
LEARNING EXCHANGES ALSO PROVIDE EACH GROUP AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONDUCT FIELD RESEARCH AND BEGIN PREPARATION FOR A COLLABORATIVE ISSUE OF THE THE FOURTH WORLD JOURNAL, OUR MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO THE CREATIVE ARTS.
This Learning Exchange to El Norte Chico of Chile, a long, slender country of sublime natural beauty. Creative activities, mealtime discussions, notebook and reading exercises, cooperative seminars and workshops and activities focus on metacognition and astrophysics.
A three day stay in the northern Chilean desert - sleeping in geodesic domes, reading poetry and watching the night skies - is the centerpiece of a week which also includes visits to cultural, natural and historic sites in Santiago, La Serena and Coquimbo.
The deadline to RSVP for this special, international 2023 Summer Learning Exchange to Chile is September 30th, 2022.
There will be 2-4 travel cost waivers available for Fourth World Members who would like to attend but find the program cost prohibitive.
To RSVP to participate in the 2023 Learning Exchange in Chile, please send Fourth World a brief autobiography in the form of an introductory cover letter and some kind of creative response to the following prompt:
"If you were selected to visit the moon on a space mission, and could bring anything you wanted from planet Earth that can fit in a lunchbox, what would you bring and why?'"
Send cover letter and creative response to fourthworldcooperative@gmail.com
If you would like to apply for one of the travel costs waivers (applies to full-time students) also please indicate this on your letter of interest.
