(SXSSC), Nepal Institute for
Health Science (NIHS), RECID (TU/IOM), KUNPHEN Tibetan
Medical Center, KAILASH Tibetan Medical Center (Amchi
Jampa), and/or other
selected intervenors and community
support groups, Cairn offers a unique choice of true
experiential and professional
opportunities for thesis researchers, postgraduate
students, professionals and/or international
volunteers, including the possibility to enjoy the
amazing beauty of the Himalayan region nature,
rich culture and real involvement with people in daily
life.
Given that this programme is fundamentally about
creating and expanding new and sustainable structural
opportunities for students, researchers and trainees to
share and upgraded their knowledge, attitude and
awarenness, it will remain flexible and based upon
students projects,
within a
Menu of Open Learning ECTS/ECDL Options. While the
present set of priorities range from ‘Human Resource
Development’ (HRD), ‘e-Marketing Online Curriculum
Development’ and other technical market-driven
categorisations, emphasis is being brought to
cover areas being: Social/Health Anthropology, Clinical
Anthropology, Psychotherapy, Ethnomedicine, Drug Abuse
Counselling Training, Tsa-rLung Tibetan Medicine
Energotherapy, Tantras, Philosophy,
Languages, Arts & Humanities, Investigation
Journalism and other more precise topics which may be
developed without limitations by students or trainees in
order to address their objectives.
Responding to the needs of future relations
between Europe and Asia, Cairn Erasmus will seek,
encourage and support Projects that reflect the urgent
need for more awareness on LDCs priorities. For doing
so, it has taken steps since several years to gather a
core of respected/experienced EU and Asian scholars and
interveners, who all are involved on a daily basis in
universities and NGOs services in/with least developed
Asian countries (LDC) and who bring the much needed
constructive but critical appraisal tools and resources
for an effective cooperation. While focusing on the
evaluation of the past for fostering the future, Cairn
original approach is in the two-fold nature of its
Curriculum Options studying as much the European and
Asian spiritual heritage values, than personality or
modern e-technology.
Following the recent European
Commission decisions, the new Erasmus Mundus
programme
partnerships will be developed to strengthen
European/Asian co-operation and international links in
higher education by supporting high-quality
European/Asian Joint-curriculum Masters
Courses, enabling students and visiting scholars to
engage in postgraduate study
at European universities, as well as by
encouraging the outgoing mobility of European students
and scholars towards third Asian
countries.
The CAIRN new scheme will proceed using both
Cultural Immersion (Tour&Study) in selected
strategic sites in Asia, as well as the usual
combination of online courses, lectures, seminars, group
work and practical fieldwork, including a dissertation.
Students will be continuously assessed by tutors online
on the basis of their essays, report writing and
presentation of portfolios. There are no examinations
for this programme, as the final aim is based on
personalized experiential and tailored project which
fulfilment will require genuine and continuous efforts
on the ground...
Strategic Asian Target-site(s)
Location
Situated in the strategic site of Boddhnath
Stupa ( KTM Valley Nepal), itself a crossroad
and
a renown
pilgrimage powerplace, Cairn Consortium is at the core
of the Himalayan region outstanding beauty, as well as
immerged into local religious, cultural, commercial and
(post-) development issues. As a Regional HEIs/NGOs
Network, Cairn also has other selected partners located in North
India (Sarnath, Varanasi, Delhi and Tsopema HP), Tibet -
TAR (Nyalam, Lhasa, Kham) and China (Shanghai),
Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and
Bali...
From their learning, seeing, talking, listening,
practicing, experiencing, travelling and discussing –
Cairn programme participants will emerge from their stay
with a different view of Asia, of their home country and
also perhaps of themselves. For some, this will
have been their first encounter with Nepalese, Tibetans
or Chinese, and they will return home with much to
ponder. Perhaps for some others the greatest reward will
have been the friendships established with other
participants, and with the local people and youth they
got to know. Regardless of the respective
backgrounds, Cairn will have been a meeting place for
some of the brightest and most interesting students and
will be remembered and valued for the rest of their
lives.
Personalized project's tutoring/coaching will
enhance participant’s ability to
understand
their
experiential, as being Gestalts immersed in a broad
geopolitical eco-social
structure,
its
symbolic efficacy and ongoing cultural changes, for
which appraisal most
Europeans
and
Asians similarly are often
ill-prepared.
CAIRN Innovative
Pedagogy
(Tentative Itinerary &
Process)
During 28 days minimum and to upto 4-5 months
maximum, motivated high school students or researchers
being gathered from various parts of Canada, UK, the
United States and Europe, will come to Bodhanath Stupa -
KTM to live, study, practices and travel together in the
whole of the Himalayan range, exploring a very different
culture and lifestyle, and a very different perceptions
of people and themselves. They will experience
both the traditions and changes that make the Stupa of
Bodhanath so distinctive and so important for being able
to grasp and understand insights of the present things,
and things to come, in a variety of ways enabling them
to understand what they see.
Participants will choose from a wide variety of
online
courses,
or bring a personal research theme, allowing them to
gain an understanding of some of the key concepts,
background and methodology of some of the controversial
topics that are at the forefront of the changes sweeping
through Nepal, Tibet, China and India. From the meeting
of these prerequisite with their experiential, they will
be in position to appreciate the deep traditions and
history that underlie everything that happens in the
Himalayan region and around.
Students and researchers will work with
qualified NGOs experts, academic tutors of repute and
the young local generation to undertake different field
studies and investigate for themselves the key issues of
their projects. Coaching, supervision and daily
briefings, sometimes discussed in classes is an
important aspect of the quality of experiential. Through
extensive opportunities they will meet and talk with a
wide range of people, from lamas, artists, businessmen,
NGOs or HEIs officials, to ordinary shopkeepers, youth
and workers, by visiting villages, urban homes, SMEs
small enterprise workplaces, local NGOs, monasteries,
temples, schools, they will compare what they learn in
class with what they experience themselves. This
combination of high-level academic instruction with
project-based investigative learning, discussions and
debates, and online broadband interaction with database
online is what will make Cairn programme a unique
opportunity, in a unique place.
Face to face language tutorials in Nepalese,
Indi, Tibetan and/or Chinese are made available as options for
those who seek the abilities which will allow them to
share, understand, develop, or hone their skills in
close contact with local people.
Demolition of the old and construction of the
new are everywhere, including the effects of the ongoing
Maoists insurgency. This is the time to register what
Nepalese, Tibetan and Chinese people are feeling, living
through and hoping for now. Students will forever
be referring to this experience by saying, "When I
studied there, this is what Nepal was
like…."
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