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Source: Bronwyn Fees, 785-532-1476, fees@1xbet sports betting edu
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News release prepared by: Jane Marshall, 785-532-1519, jpm2@1xbet sports betting edu
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
CHINESE EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS TO VISIT 1xbet sports betting , FLINT HILLS
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's Bronwyn Fees is determined to plant Kansas in the hearts and minds of Chinese preschoolers. How? By putting on a show for 24 early childhood teachers and faculty at South 1xbet sports betting Normal University from 1xbet sports betting .
The teachers arrive on Friday, Oct. 29, and 1xbet sports betting experience Stone House Early Childhood Education Center on campus, kindergarten classrooms at Amanda Arnold Elementary School and Head Start in Manhattan and a special seminar featuring K-State professors.
Fees’ agenda encompasses more than academia in the heart of America.
The teachers 1xbet sports betting visit a ranch, dine at historic Hayes House in Council Grove, lunch at the Union, dine at the historic Pizza Hut in Aggieville and tour a mall, a grocery store and a “typical American home.”
“When a group of us went to 1xbet sports betting , we were taken to a Chinese home,” said Fees, associate professor in family studies and human services.
She and LuAnn Hoover, instructor in family studies and human services, have been planning the cross-cultural visit since they visited 1xbet sports betting in 2009. They were invited to speak at the first Sino-American conference on early childhood education in Guangzhou, hosted by South 1xbet sports betting Normal.
This summer, Fees returned to conduct research on home environments for motor development of pre-school children with Dr. Fuming Zheng, early childhood education professor from the university. She spoke at the 2010 Child and Family Conference on raising a healthy child at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai.
While in 1xbet sports betting , she also visited kindergartens at South 1xbet sports betting Normal in Guangzhou and Zhuhai and met with staff at the Harvard 1xbet sports betting Educational Institute in Beijing.
The October exchange will feature a presentation on Early Childhood Education and Families in 1xbet sports betting by Zheng and two directors from the kindergarten affiliated with South 1xbet sports betting Normal on Monday, Nov. 1.
“The teachers 1xbet sports betting attend a seminar where our faculty 1xbet sports betting cover topics such as developmentally appropriate practices during early childhood and exceptional behaviors and autism,” Fees said. “But we want them to get a feel for the state, too. This 1xbet sports betting be the first trip to the United States for most of them.”
They 1xbet sports betting be offered a glimpse of Flint Hills ranch life at Dean Virginia and Tom Moxley’s place in Morris County: an historic ranch house, cutting horse demonstration, horseback rides and information on grassland management.
The Nov. 1 presentation 1xbet sports betting be 1 to 3 p.m. in the Little Theatre at the K-State Union. It is open to the K-State community and sponsored by family studies and human services. A reception 1xbet sports betting follow.
The group leaves Kansas on Tuesday, Nov. 2