SU team members Marcelle Haddix (English teacher educator) and Jeff Mangram (social studies teacher educator) visited several schools during their first trip to Kenya through the Kenyatta University-Syracuse University partnership. They visited Ugweri Secondary School (a mixed day school in a rural area), Nairobi School (a national boys boarding school in an urban area), and Kenyatta University Primary School (a mixed day school in an urban area). Joanna Masingila was part of the visits to Ugweri Secondary School and Nairobi School, and Peter Rugano (SU doctoral student) participated in the visit to Ugweri Secondary School. At each of the schools they interacted with the students, and at two of the schools they observed lessons. These photos show some of the activities of those visits.
CaptionDrawing water from the Ugweri Secondary School well
CaptionUgweri Secondary School dining area under a large mango tree
CaptionForm Four students at Ugweri Secondary School
CaptionMarcelle Haddix talking with the Form Four students
CaptionJeff Mangram talking with the Form Four students
CaptionTalking with all students at Ugweri Secondary School
CaptionUgweri Secondary School students
CaptionMarcelle Haddix, Jeff Mangram, Joanna Masingila, Peter Rugano and Ugweri Secondary School students and some teachers
CaptionJeff Mangram writes the title of the poem, "I, Too, Sing America" on the board in a Form Four English class at Nairobi School
CaptionMarcelle Haddix engages students in discussing ideas from the Langston Hughes poem, "I, Too, Sing America"
CaptionObserving a Form Two geography lesson
CaptionNew library at Nairobi School that was officially opened on June 6, 2014
CaptionIn a Standard Seven English class at Kenyatta University Primary School
CaptionKenyatta University Primary School students
CaptionPart of the garden at Kenyatta University Primary School
About Joanna Masingila
Joanna Masingila is Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education at Syracuse University. She was a Fulbright Scholar to Kenyatta University in 1998, and since that time Syracuse University and Kenyatta University have an institutional linkage.
