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Co-published with This volume focuses on two questions. First, how can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education and something they help shape, rather than as time away from their education and as a commodity to be consumed? Second, how can colleges and universities maximize the educational value of education abroad by forging stronger connections between it and other undergraduate experiences? The volume argues that learning abroad be positioned within the work of the larger institution and students' overall education.Organized within three sections, this volume makes the case that learning abroad must be positioned within the work of the larger institution and students' overall education. In doing so, it questions many current assumptions and stimulates thinking about the power of an integrative approach to education abroad to lead to lasting educative value. An integrative approach requires that students be afforded multiple opportunities and ongoing support to draw connections with their learning abroad with other dimensions of their undergraduate education.Chapters cover topics such as the additive value of integrating multiple HIPs with education abroad to span disciplinary boundaries and promote an array of soft or operational skills; the importance of maintaining the disruptive quality of the encounter with the foreign to enrich study at home; issues of commodification and reciprocity; increasing access to study abroad to community college--particularly adult--populations; facilitating students' social and intellectual development, identity formation, and reflective practice; rethinking orientation programming to emphasize the continuity of learning pre-, during- and post-education abroad; asking fundamental questions about the purpose of education abroad to rethink assessment and its purposes; the faculty role in the internationalization of the curriculum; and developing more intentional relationships with in-field partners and international educational organizations to more effectively connect leaning abroad with other dimensions of undergraduate education.For everyone involved in international education - whether SIOs, faculty, department chairs or deans - the critical questions and new perspectives offered here will inform and shape the growing movement to integrate education abroad with the overall undergraduate experience.
Contents
Foreword—Brian Whalen Introduction. The Case for Integrating Education Abroad Into Undergraduate Education—Elizabeth Brewer and Anthony C. Ogden 1. U.S. Education Abroad. Historical Perspectives, Emerging Trends, and Changing Narratives—Anthony C. Ogden and Elizabeth Brewer Part One. Critical Perspectives on Education Abroad and its Integration into Undergraduate Education 2. Education Abroad as a High Impact Practice. Linking Research and Practice to the Educational Continuum—John P. Haupt and Anthony C. Ogden 3. Curriculum Integration. Opportunities for Continuity and Disruption Along the Educational Continuum—Elizabeth Brewer, Giselda Beaudin, and Michael Woolf 4. Toward Decolonizing Education Abroad. Moving Beyond the Self/Other Dichotomy—Roger Adkins and Bryan Messerly Part Two. Supporting Student Learning Along the Educational Continuum 5. Adults Studying Abroad Through Community Colleges—Rosalind Latiner Raby 6. Engaging with Self, Others, Space, and Place. Leveraging the Geographic Imagination in Education Abroad—Anthony Gristwood and Darren Kelly 7. Learning to Navigate. Lessons from Student Development—Paige E. Butler 8. Using Assessment to Align and Interweave Core Curriculum Objectives and Education Abroad Learning Outcomes—Katherine N. Yngve 9. Reflection as a Tool in the Educational Continuum—Victor Savicki and Michele V. Price 10. Why is the Missing Link Still Largely Missing in Education Abroad Preparation?. The Case for Ongoing Orientation—Bruce La Brack and Anthony C. Ogden Part Three. Partnerships in Education Abroad Integration 11. The Intersection of Education Abroad and Career Readiness, and the Role of International Educators—Anne M. D'Angelo and Mary Pang 12. Faculty Roles in Advancing Student Learning Abroad—Joan Gillespie 13. Local Partners as Teachers and Learners in Education Abroad. Introducing a Local Partner Engagement Process Model—Julie M. Ficarra 14. From Transactional to Relational. Realigning Partnerships Between Higher Education Institutions and International Education Organizations—Kris Holloway, Lisa Chieffo, Rich Kurtzman, and Anthony C. Ogden 15. Future Perspectives on Education Abroad—Elizabeth Brewer and Anthony C. Ogden Contributors Index
