Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook

Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook
ISBN-10
1789201160
ISBN-13
9781789201161
Category
Social Science
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2018-12-17
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Neriko Musha Doerr

Description

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.

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