Forced Migration

If this team wants to take another approach to the topic and look at migration, immigration, refugee status etc., you might want to check out this website. There is a lot of good information including a history of displacement in Rwanda.


http://www.forcedmigration.org/browse/regional/rwanda.htm

Focusing in on the topic

Focus: Exploration of all aspects of travel and transportation within Rwanda among Rwandan youth.

Potential features and topics:

• Transportation needs, desires, and experiences of Rwandan youth
• Travel practices and methods
• Transportation costs, efficiency, fuel sources
• Physics and the conservation costs and benefits of petroleum-based and alternative transportation
• Measuring transport efficiency
• Design, message, and aesthetics of cars, buses, taxis, footwear, et cetera

Le Tour de France begins in July. If we can peel the Nat'l. team away from the tv, count me in on meeting them! Doug

Catherine's First Post--finally!

Hello Team!

I am excited to start collaborating with you on developing our team's topic!
In the coming weeks and months I look forward to brainstorming and exploring ideas for "Youth on the Move."

"Youth on the Move" appealed to me because of its potential engagement with senses of place, mapping, place-based narratives, definitions of place, and intersections between art and movement.

My academic research interests include religious performance, tourist productions, memory, and visual culture.

I invite both of you check in on the blog at least once a week.

Let's start sharing ideas, thoughts, and random notes to nourish our project.

Talk to you soon!

Best,
Catherine

Bicycles in Rwanda

This month I'm tuning my hybrid bicycle to get some early spring riding in Iowa underway. While ordering new handlebars, cleaning my chain and tuning the gears, I've been thinking about how important the bicycle is to a successful life in Rwanda. I'm hoping we include the bicycle in our studies.

Project Rwanda

Hi, Youth on the Move people,

I've added a link to Project Rwanda. Check it out. One of the things that might be interesting would be for us to meet the national Rwandan cycling team. I've contacted the coach. He's going to see if they will be around in July.

Youth on the Move

The team responsible for the Youth on the Move expedition will explore all aspects of travel and transportation within Rwanda among Rwandan youth. Stark contrasts between the transport needs, desires, and experiences of Rwandan and American youth will be an explicit theme, inviting adopting schools to follow up with their students on the U.S. side. Rwandan youth travel practices will be fully explored and documented, by purpose (visiting, shopping, going to and from school) and by method of conveyance (foot, donkey cart, bush taxi, bus, bicycle, etc.). Connections will be ventured for learning expedition involvement of teachers in social studies(transportation cost, efficiency, fuel sources), science (the physics and the conservation costs and benefits of petroleum-based and alternative transportation), mathematics (measuring transport efficiency), art (the design, message, and aesthetics of cars, buses, taxis, footwear, and the like), and various other subjects. (In all cases, full elaboration of the expedition in allied subjects – i.e., those beyond social studies, such as music, art, math, science, and physical education – will await post-GPA work in the U.S. with teachers in those subject areas, but our teams will have been trained to gather materials that can be used outside of social studies.)