Reflections on Changing Narratives Supporting Education Abroad

Reflections on Changing Narratives Supporting Education Abroad
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Publisher: STAR SCHOLARS PRESS
Total Pages: 10
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Genre: Education
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Heidi Soneson Affiliate, Gateway International Group, United States Martin Tillman President, Global Career Compass, United States ABSTRACT Two international education veterans reflect on changes in the field of education abroad and student learning over the past forty years. The first perspective examines how the narrative supporting education abroad has shifted from its instrumental value to higher education institutions, focusing instead on student learning outcomes and employability. The second perspective traces a path within institutions of higher education. These two perspectives provide complementary views on how institutions and professionals have adapted to domestic and global challenges and successfully re-aligned the goals of education abroad programs to meet new student needs and academic priorities. Keywords: Education Abroad, Student Learning, Gen Z, Student Needs, Employment, Careers Aspirations

Veteran Educators, International Education, and Study Abroad

Veteran Educators, International Education, and Study Abroad
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Publisher: STAR SCHOLARS
Total Pages: 103
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Genre: Education
ISBN: 1957480297

This book offers profound insights into the dynamic landscape of international education, drawing on the perspectives of veteran educators and thought leaders. Through engaging chapters, it explores the transformative potential of global learning, examining current challenges, reflecting on historical trajectories, and envisioning the future of education abroad. Each chapter seamlessly integrates personal experiences, theoretical frameworks, and historical perspectives, emphasizing the vital role of Senior International Officers and advocating for a quantum approach to education abroad. The book aims to deliver a comprehensive and authentic exploration of international education by covering the evolution of study abroad, evolving narratives, and the impacts of political shifts and technology. Beyond celebrating achievements, it addresses critical areas requiring attention, inviting readers on a reflective journey to appreciate the intricate threads forming the tapestry of global education.

Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation

Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation
Author: Victor Savicki
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000976890

Enrollments in international education programs are projected to grow exponentially as students, parents, and university personnel seek to prepare future leaders who can live and work effectively in a global environment. What do we know about the outcomes of such programs, and how can educators become more intentional about designing, and assessing, the impact of such courses? How can we help students achieve the intercultural growth and transformation that they may envision as they set forth on their international sojourn?International education provides opportunities for students to grow personally, and to learn in a rich and intense educational environment. The outcomes of such opportunities emphasize not only traditional academic competence, but also changes in motivations, attitudes, self-identity, and values. It is these latter, co-academic, concepts that are the focus of this book. Its goal is to give solid substance to the growth and transformation approach to study abroad. It defines the central concept of intercultural competence, sets it within the framework of transformative learning theory, and offers ideas and strategies for facilitating its development. In doing so, it goes far beyond traditional emphases on the achievement of such formal skills as foreign language acquisition or specific knowledge of course content in national literatures, arts, or history.This book provides study abroad educators with a theoretical framework and examples of practice to craft more meaningful activities that will make a long-term difference in the quality of student experiences, and set the stage for transformative change. If we plan to send a million students a year to study abroad within the decade, we need approaches to maximize student growth outcomes in an efficient and effective way. It is also relevant for anyone engaged in courses in adult education, college student services, comparative and international education, international business, intercultural relations, and service learning that involve study abroad, and that raise corresponding issues of curriculum design.

Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Students in Education Abroad

Historically Underrepresented Faculty and Students in Education Abroad
Author: Devin L. Walker
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2022-11-14
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 3031130561

This book examines how the unique perspectives of BIPOC faculty and students must be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum to expose students of color to education abroad experiences, enhance cultural awareness and sensitivity, and lend to a broader diversity and inclusion perspective. This edited volume, written by authors of color, argues that education abroad programs not only provide essential academic and cultural enrichment but can also be an important nexus of innovation. When approached within a creative, interdisciplinary, and holistic framework, these programs are ripe with opportunities to engage various constituencies and a potent source of strategies for bolstering diversity, recruitment, retention, and graduation. Despite a tendency to view study abroad as a luxurious option for persons with wealth and means, the editors and their authors argue that global education should be thought of as a fundamental and integral part of higher education, for all students, in a global era.

T.I.P.S to Study Abroad: Simple Letters for Complex Engagement

T.I.P.S to Study Abroad: Simple Letters for Complex Engagement
Author: The Letterwallahs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780989626330

"TIPS to Study Abroad: Simple Letters for Complex Engagement" offers a simple method to help travelers - students and tourists alike - reflect on how moving from one culture to another sparks questions about identity, society, and the meaning of travel itself. The book collects and showcases thought-provoking letters to Things, Ideas, People and Self (TIPS) written by Dr. Anu Taranath's University of Washington students during their study abroad program in India, and encourages us to see ourselves and our surroundings anew. "TIPS to Study Abroad" serves as an invaluable tool for study abroad and international education programs, and contributes to the broader conversation on social justice and reflective global travel. Inviting readers to care and connect, "TIPS to Study Abroad" deepens travelers' engagement with who we are - and can be - in our wide world.

Quality and Change in Teacher Education

Quality and Change in Teacher Education
Author: John Chi-kin Lee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319241397

How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management achievement agendas which are permeating teacher education structures, cultures and programmes and the work of teacher educators internationally. Graduate schools of education in the United States and the UK, for example, are making fundamental changes in the structures, courses, programs and faculties that prepare beginning teachers each year. Drawing upon examples from the United States, United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Australia and elsewhere, its authors provide a unique critical overview of emerging themes and challenges of raising the quality of teaching and the quality of student learning outcomes. They suggest possible ways forward for teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policy-makers as they seek to raise the quality of teaching and student outcomes whilst sustaining their moral purposes and values of equity, inclusion and social justice. Taken together, the chapters contain informed, critical discussions of “normal education” and “teacher education” of “professional standards”, “4+2/+1” post-degree training, “PGDE versus BEd”, integration of subject specializations and professional education. Each one provides new visions of the teacher as a professional and to cultivate high quality teachers in the West and the Greater China region. For all those interested in issues of quality, change and forward movement in teacher education in contexts of policy led reform, this is a must read.

Social Justice and International Education

Social Justice and International Education
Author: LaNitra Berger
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781942719342

Social Justice and International Education: Research, Practice, and Perspectives brings together a group of educators, scholars, and practitioners in the field of international education who are doing important and innovative work promoting social justice, confronting inequality, and fostering social responsibility in a global context. The book does not operate on a singular definition of social justice; rather, the authors describe their own working definition and how it has guided their international education work. Divided into three parts, the book explores social justice research, social justice in practice, and different perspectives from practitioners across the field.

Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education

Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education
Author: Kirsi Tirri
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1838802673

This book takes a holistic approach to pedagogy and argues that the purpose of education is to educate the student's whole personality including cognitive, social, and moral domains. The four sections and twelve chapters address the current pedagogical challenges in basic and higher education in international contexts. The authors describe the principles and practices through which meaningful education is promoted and enhanced in a variety of ways. The challenges educators face in their profession as well as ways to overcome them are elaborated on both theoretically and empirically. The book allows both researchers, teachers, and educational policy makers to reflect on current developments, challenges, and areas of development in educational institutions when aiming to support student growth and learning.

Education Abroad

Education Abroad
Author: Anthony C. Ogden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429776055

Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the number of students travelling abroad for the purpose of short-term academic study. As such, attention is turning to the role that education abroad can have in enhancing student learning and producing global-ready graduates. This volume provides a succinct and accessible analysis of the existing research and scholarship around the world on a range of important areas related to contemporary education abroad, providing practitioners with important implications for programming and practice. Focusing on fourteen key topics relating to education abroad, this accessible desktop compendium not only synthesizes what is already known, but also indicates which topics need further research and how the existing literature can be applied to daily programming and practice. Extending beyond student learning outcomes to look at essential topics such as institutional outcomes, program models, and host community outcomes, this volume covers major trends in contemporary research as well as an assessment of the methodological and design challenges that are common to education abroad research. The fourteen distinct topics address the broad themes of participation, programming, student outcomes, institutional outcomes and societal outcomes, and include chapters from a broad range of widely acknowledged and respected international experts. Bridging the gap between scholarship and practice, this accessible guide is essential reading for anyone working in higher education today and involved in shaping and managing education abroad programs. It is useful for all who want to understand and leverage existing research to inform education abroad programming and practice.

A Reader of Narrative and Critical Lenses on Intercultural Teaching and Learning

A Reader of Narrative and Critical Lenses on Intercultural Teaching and Learning
Author: Candace Schlein
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1681236699

It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences offer opportunities for teachers and student teachers to learn about cultures and cultures of schooling via first?hand interactions. In this way, intercultural teaching enables educators to intertwine the personal, political, cultural, social, theoretical, and practical as a means of making important changes in school and classroom life. A Reader on Narrative and Critical Lenses of Intercultural Teaching and Learning offers readers a set of chapters that highlights the work of researchers, educators, and teacher educators that displays new possibilities for ongoing teacher development and positive social and educational changes. This book engages in critical and narrative exploration of intercultural teaching, intercultural competence, and the relationship between the work of educators in different countries and teaching for diversity. This text also accounts for international, intra?cultural, and intercultural teaching beyond early field experiences and student teaching programs by including the viewpoints of educators with these experiences. Significantly, this book enhances the current dialogue on intercultural teaching and on intercultural competence with first?hand narrative accounts of life, teaching, and research in intercultural professional settings in order to bring to light intricate understandings of this form of educator professional development. In addition, this text critically unpacks aspects of intercultural teacher development and programs supporting such endeavors as they explicitly enhance educators’ capacities for personal, passionate, and participatory teaching and inquiry.