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April 2, 2007
Education Professor Will Serve as Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania
SIOUX FALLS - Dr. Sherry Feinstein has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar Lecture/Researcher for the 2007-08 academic year.
Feinstein is an associate professor of education and has been teaching at Augustana since 1995.
“My sabbatical was coming up and I wanted something meaningful to do,” she said. “I did a lot of searching on the Internet, and when I came across the Fulbright program I thought it was ideal.”
Assisted by Augustana colleagues, Dr. Daniel Swets and Dr. Michael Nitz, Feinstein completed the application process and beginning in September will spend 10 months in Tanzania. It’s her first journey to Africa and naturally she is excited.
Tanzania’s national goals are to increase secondary education attendance from 6 percent in 2005 to 50 percent in 2010. Feinstein will contribute to the objectives by supporting the country’s pre-service teacher program. She will be teaching Educational Psychology and Adolescent Development.
In addition, she plans to conduct qualitative research to explore the existing positive factors in the lives of secondary education students in order to determine the traits and characteristics important to successful interaction with their environment. The study will attempt to discover approaches which help to foster resiliency among adolescents, particularly in regards to HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Feinstein has been invited by Provost Nicholas Bangu and Professor Mwahombela, Chair of the Education Department at Tumaini University-Iringa University College to collaborate with them.
Tumaini University-Iringa University College was established in 1993 as a Lutheran Seminary. It began offering studies in business administration in 1995 and first awarded bachelor’s degrees in 1998. The school has an enrollment of 500 with students from all regions of Tanzania. The institution has close ties to Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn.
The traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields.
The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) assists in the administration of the Fulbright Scholar Program for faculty and professionals.