Nepal: Community, Technology and Sustainability brings together cohorts of US-based university students and Nepalese university students in a hybrid online/mobility program that supports intercultural, interdisciplinary, community-engaged, project-based learning. The program seeks to adopt a decolonial pedagogical model that centers the Nepali co-instructors, students, and host community partners as critical knowledge holders, sovereigns of their own development, and co-producers of the educational experience. This article provides a conceptual framework for centering typically marginalized voices, a description of the program and an edited version of a dialogue between several of the course co-instructors. Our major findings are that to achieve these ends, the values of decolonialization and equitable voice must be built into all elements of the program; that this requires pushing against many conventions of education abroad programming and, in some cases, community practices; and that this push can yield transformative outcomes for students, instructors, and communities. Abstract in Nepali नेपालः कम्युनिटी, टेक्नोलोजी र सस्टेनेबिलिटीले अन्तरसांस्कृतिक, अन्तरविषयक, सामुदाय संलग्न परियोजनामा आधारित सिकाई मोडेल प्रयोग गरी हाइब्रिड अनलाइन/गतिशिलता कार्यक्रममार्फत अमेरिकाका विश्वविद्यालयका विद्यार्थीहरू र नेपालका विश्वविद्यालयका विद्यार्थीलाई एकै ठाउँमा ल्याउँछ । यो कार्यक्रमले विऔपनिवेशिक (डीकोलोनिअल) शिक्षण सिकाई मोडेल प्रयोग गर्दछ जसले नेपाली सह–शिक्षक, विद्यार्थी, र आयोजक सामुदाय नै ज्ञानका महत्वपूर्ण धारक हुन्, आफ्नो विकासको लागि सार्वभौम हुन्छन् र शैक्षिक अनुभवका सह–निर्माता हुन् भन्ने विषयलाई जोड दिन्छ । यस लेखले सीमान्तकृत आवाजलाई केन्द्रित गर्ने अवधारणाको रूपरेखा, कार्यक्रमको विवरण र निर्देशित पाठ्यक्रम पढाउने धेरै सह–प्रशिक्षकसँगको संवादको सम्पादित संस्करण प्रस्तुत गर्छ । यी लक्ष्यहरू प्राप्त गर्न कार्यक्रमका सबै तहमा विऔपनिवेशिक र समानताका आवाजका मूल्य तथा मान्यता जोडिनुपर्छ; यसका लागि विदेशमा शिक्षा प्राप्त गर्ने कार्यक्रमका परम्परा र केही अवस्थामा, सामुदायिक अभ्यासविरुद्ध केही कदम चालिनु पर्छ, र यस्ता कदमले विद्यार्थी, प्रशिक्षक र समुदायका लागि परिवर्तनकारी परिणामहरू ल्याउन सक्छन भन्ने यस आलेखको निष्कर्ष हो ।
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