Mountains Beyond Mountains

For a project in Educational Psychology project, we had to link a book that deals with large global problems to the problems that educators and citizens face every day. Our group chose the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. The book followed the career of one Dr. Paul Farmer who traveled the world with his organization, Partners In Health, and worked to cure every person he possibly could, wherever he was, whatever the opposition.

Our group faced several challenges with this book. We were to take a book about health and medicine and relate it to education. How were we to do that? What does one have to do with the other. Then, someone in our group mentioned that education was the same as working with a disease, because there was no such thing as a panacea. Not everyone can be cured by the same medicine, and not everyone can be educated by the same method. By this motto, we gathered our thoughts and drew on the theme of "Think Global, Act Local" to further illustrate how unique approaches are necessary to solve the issue of education problems in the United States.

When we had all of our major talking points outlined, we got together and wrote a script for a video. This video was to creatively present all of our information and completely present our ideas about how Paul Farmer's quest can possibly help us as educators. Please watch the video that we created. It represents all of the work that our group did with Mountains Beyond Mountains.