A note from the Program Director
The Embodied Learning About Asia Program creates opportunities for students, faculty and the broader communities in which their institutions are located to learn about Asia through immersive involvement and direct participation. Grants support the invitation of an experienced practitioner of an Asian art or cultural practice to ASIANetwork campuses for a period of residency. Participants from the host campus community as well as invited relevant constituencies from the broader community beyond campus to enhance their knowledge about Asia in a way that goes beyond reading texts, listening to lectures, or viewing demonstrations. The program emphasizes performative, first-person experience facilitated by the visiting resident(s) along with self-reflection, dialogue and mentoring.
The value and promise of the Embodied Learning About Asia (ELAAP) program couldn’t be more clear. All of us can now appreciate the benefits of a program that seeks to capture the very best of in-person, experiential education.
This program celebrates the kind of learning that best occurs—or perhaps is only truly possible—in a face-to-face setting. The Program Director is thrilled to support our members in conceiving short-term campus residencies that bring people together for first-hand experience, cultural dialogue, and informed reflection. This program provides an additional opportunity for recipient institutions to broaden and deepen their ties to members of the broader community beyond the campus by including them in a selected component or components of embodied learning activities.
We eagerly await creative, collaborative, and compelling proposals and look forward to supporting initiatives students, faculty, and communities will cherish and remember.
Chris Herrick
Program Director
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Studies
Muhlenberg College