Baret Scholars: Students of the World

Learning to Impact

Chapter 15

FELLOWSHIPS ARE educational expeditions that take students further into the world to pursue their passions. They are a chance to deepen and add nuance to a student’s understanding of the region; they are an opportunity to test or expand interest in a subject or a career. Every Fellowship is a meticulously crafted 7–10-day expe- rience that is led by a Fellow and chosen by 12 students. Choice is a vital element of the Fellowship experience: Students choose from 10 Fellowships in each re- gion. As they have chosen the Fellowship, they are therefore personally invested in the area they explore, the work they do, the passion they pursue. Each Fellowship is inspired by a topic unique to that region and belongs to one of our four domains: Creation, Nature, Innovation, Politics. Fellowships are driven by questions and designed around goals. Our questions pierce deep into the topic and region, en- sure focus and rigour, and empower our students’ guided exploration. To find an- swers to our questions, we meet experts and learn from them, we engage in work- shops and participate in seminars, we talk to locals and find ways to positively impact the community, we find creative ways to showcase our learnings and perspectives, and we find new ways to look at the world around us. Our goals are centred on learn- ing, communication, and impact. Fel- lowships pursue specific objectives that ensure our students emerge transformed from these experiences, with new knowl- edge, practical skills, and care for those around them.

Fellowships

THE PURSUIT of knowledge and expe- rience in every Fellowship makes an impact and changes the lives of those around us, those within us, now and in the future. We are always engaging with people on the ground, gathering real stories, and creating plans and projects that could sustainably improve our sur- roundings. The organizations and peo- ple we include in our Fellowships will be changemakers. We understand how challenging and rewarding their work can be, and our projects are shaped by the need to create positive change within an increasingly complex world. The following pages contain detailed examples of three Fellowships from dif- ferent domains. Each Fellowship begins with a guiding question, an introduction and suggested readings, and is followed by a detailed sample 10-day itinerary. They are meant to provide a better sense of what these 10-days can look like for our stu- dents; they are not final. Our final Fellow- ships, crafted with our Fellows, will be im- provements on these examples. To further understand the breadth of Fellowships at Baret, please read Section III where we have a number of our Fellowships offered to students of the class of 2024-2025 ar- ranged by region. As we are led by stu- dent demand, certain Fellowships might not be executed while others might have multiple sections.

Cityscape, Shenzhen

Learning from Experience

Learning through People

Learning in Groups

UNDERSTANDING GAINED from experience has a unique and powerful quality: it stays and transforms. Our Fellowships are cen- tred around real, first-hand, and hands-on experiences because we want our students to not only engage with their surround- ings but to remember, value, and evaluate them. Active engagement in projects also helps our students gain important, practi- cal skills, and shows them how academic learning can inform their decisions and visions of the world. Learning from ex- perience ensures a holistic approach that embraces relearning, continuous evolu- tion, and inspired knowledge creation.

THESE EXPERIENCES are called Fellow- ships because they are led by our Fel- lows—people with remarkable curiosity and real-world expertise in their chosen domain. In every Fellowship, our students are exposed to many people from differ- ent walks of life. To learn through them, our students will not be passive listeners, but they will walk with them, alongside them, and see the world through their eyes. It’s an opportunity to know what it’s really like to be, for example, an innovator in Shenzhen, a curator in London, a hu- manitarian worker in Turkey, a filmmaker in LA, or a naturalist in the Amazon.

THE FELLOWSHIPS are an opportunity to broaden and deepen a student’s commu- nication abilities. With only 12 students in each Fellowship, there will be time and space for every student to communicate their thoughts with confidence. Through numerous workshops and seminars in each Fellowship, our students learn how to compose and construct their experienc- es into hypotheses or arguments—a truly valuable skill for their future. Additional- ly, they work on projects together and pre- pare presentations in small groups, ensur- ing that learnings are shared, friendships are built, and knowledge is created.

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BARET SCHOLARS

THE BARET PROGRAM

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