Interview with Tetiana Kondratievat, May 30, 2023
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
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Abstract Tetiana Kondratievat Kondrateivat teaches Methodology at the Ternopil Pedagogical University in Ukraine. She encountered her first Peace Corps Volunteer while a student in secondary school; since joining the faculty at the University, she’s worked with several Volunteers as a team-teacher. Volunteers, while providing practice speaking with a native speaker, also share cultural habits and values that help to open up Ukrainians to the larger world. At a picnic with her American teacher, for instance, she tasted smores for the first time. As a partner teacher herself, she’s shared holiday celebrations with Volunteers, and games and songs related to holidays. Kondratievat’s learned that work can be done well in different ways, and that it is a choice that one makes to learn new ways of doing her work in the classroom. Volunteers offer a reciprocal experience for students and teachers. Some of her stereotypes of Americans have been altered, particularly the idea that Americans only ate junk food, and that Americans have no problems. Being a counterpart during the war with Russia has meant a great deal to her, something that she greatly appreciates.Interview Accession
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Kondratievat, Tetiana Interview by Peggy Walton. 30 May. 2023. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Kondratievat, T. (2023, May 30). Interview by P. Walton. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Kondratievat, Tetiana, interview by Peggy Walton. May 30, 2023, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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