Transforming study abroad : a handbook / Neriko Musha Doerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign study.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

Contents:

Introduction

The global and the national : does the global need the national, and if it does, what's wrong with that?

Culture : is it a homogeneous, static unit of difference?

Native speakers : do they really exist, and should students aim to speak like them?

Immersion : is it really about "living like a local"?

Host society and host family : who are they, and who shapes their lives?

Border crossing : do we instead construct borders through learning and volunteering?

Self-transformation : do assessing and talking about self-transformation involve power politics?

Conclusion and departure : new frameworks for study abroad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-243-4

1-78920-116-0

OCLC:

1079007857