This article focuses on the impact of an education course with a short immersion trip to Bolivia on a group of pre-service teachers and the way in which it changed students' understanding of education and of their role as educators. Based on the responses of six of these former students to a short survey, this article argues that the main impact of this course was helping these prospective teachers to enhance their understanding of education as a community-based enterprise and to develop new pedagogical tools that provided them with a greater sense of agency as teachers.