Many study abroad programs will take you to a new country, and then you’ll do the same things that you do here for school - taking tests, sitting in a classroom, and ultimately having little engagement with the culture of your host country.
If you study abroad with Carpe Mundi, that’s not the type of experience you’ll be having, instead you’ll experience and engage with the world and your education in new and meaningful ways. No matter where you travel with Carpe Mundi, be it Central America, South America, Asia, or West Africa, you’ll be practicing experiential education.
But what does experiential education look like?
It looks like moving locations every week to two weeks, rather than staying in one city.
It looks like volunteering with local community organizations, instead of sitting in a classroom.
It looks like reflection, journaling, and group discussion, instead of tests.
It looks like traveling with a small group of 8-12 students and two educators, rather than being one of 100 or more.
Traveling with Carpe Mundi will give you a whole new take on what education can look like, and mean. You’ll be learning by doing. Participating in a meditation retreat, planting trees, doing beach patrols for baby sea turtles, cooking lessons, hikes, sometimes living with local home-stay families and sometimes living in a hostel with other travelers.
It gives you much more variety than staying in one place. And it allows you to learn with the world as your classroom, rather than a desk inside a school building.