Transforming Study Abroad - Neriko Musha Doerr

Transforming Study Abroad

A Handbook
Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-756-9 (ISBN)
44,10 inkl. MwSt
Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.
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.

Neriko Musha Doerr is an Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include The Meaningful Inconsistencies: Bicultural Nationhood, Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Berghahn, 2009), The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad (Berghahn, 2017, with Hannah Taïeb).

Acknowledgments



Introduction

     Sample Questions



Chapter 1. The Global and the National: Does the Global Need the National, and If It Does, What’s Wrong with That?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions



Chapter 2. Culture: Is It a Homogeneous, Static Unit of Difference?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions

     Activity: Study Abroad Checklist



Chapter 3. “Native Speakers”: Do They Really Exist, and Should Students Aim to Speak Like Them?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions



Chapter 4. Immersion: Is It Really about “Living Like a Local”?

     Recommended Readings

     Activity: Daorba Yduts

     Sample Questions



Chapter 5. Host Society and Host Family: Who Are They, and Who Shapes Their Lives?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions



Chapter 6. Border Crossing: Do We Instead Construct Borders through Learning and Volunteering?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions



Chapter 7. Self-Transformation: Do Assessing and Talking about Self-Transformation Involve Power Politics?

     Recommended Readings

     Sample Questions



Conclusion and Departure: New Frameworks for Study Abroad



References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78920-756-8 / 1789207568
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-756-9 / 9781789207569
Zustand Neuware
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