Thursday, August 08th, 2013
Emmy-Nominated Film Features Santa Barbara Students and Teachers
Alethea Tyner ParadisPeace Works Travel, a Santa Barbara based educational tour company founded by Alethea Tyner Paradis, a local teacher and Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award winner, is featured with her students in a 2013 Emmy-nominated documentary film. An ABCNews-produced documentary, Power of a Picture, was filmed in Santa Barbara and Vietnam and highlights the educational value of the photo of the… [Read Full Article]Education Travel,Educational travel programs,Global Education,Kim Phúc,Kim Phúc Vietnam War Survivor,Nick Ut,Peace Works Travel,Vietnam Student Trips,Vietnam War,War/Photography
Wednesday, August 07th, 2013
The Hiroshima Myth
Every year during the first two weeks of August the mass news media and many politicians at the national level trot out the "patriotic" political myth that the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan in August of 1945 caused them to surrender, and thereby saved the lives of anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million American soldiers,… [Read Full Article]educational field trips,Educational travel programs,Global Education
Saturday, July 06th, 2013
Learning Lessons from Cambodia for a Better World
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” – Oscar Wilde.Art is undoubtedly the most subtle way of understanding life, world and most importantly, the self. Art is the phenomenal tool that easily unearths the different layers of inhibitions that bind people and help in breaking down the shackles that restrict men on the basis of culture, religion, region… [Read Full Article]education travel programs,education travel tours
Tuesday, July 02th, 2013
Experiential Learning: Vietnam in Southern California
Southern California Teachers: Want a nice complement to your inter-cultural studies? Vietnam War unit? Human Geography field work? Here’s a fun educational field trip destination with activities in Little Saigon, an established Vietnamese community easily accessible off the 405 freeway.Preparations needed: Bus transportation for students and chaperones: 3-5 hours during late morning to early afternoon. $10.00 for lunch, $5.00 for… [Read Full Article]education travel programs,educational field trips,Vietnam War
Friday, June 28th, 2013
The Vietnam syndrome
Regarding Iraq and Afghanistan, are we telling ourselves — and believing — the same false story we told in 1975?Former CIA operative Frank Snepp reflects on the military and strategic failures of the Vietnam War and how current U.S. policy is repeating those same mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan today.Our work at Peace Works Travel is to take students on… [Read Full Article]education travel programs,educational field trips