Student Learning Abroad

What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do About It
Herausgeber: Vande Berg, Michael; Lou, Kris Hemming; Paige, R Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Reviews the dominant paradigms of study abroad; marshals rigorous research findings, with emphasis on recent studies that offer convincing evidence about what undergraduates are or are not learning; brings to bear the latest knowledge about human learning and development that raises questions about the very foundations of current theory and practice; and presents six examples of study abroad courses or programmes whose interventions apply this knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781579227135
• ISBN-10: 1579227139
• Artikelnr.: 34766052

Autorenporträt

Michael Vande Berg is vice president for Academic Affairs at the Council on International Educational Exchange. He completed his PhD in comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held leadership positions at several institutions that are unusually committed to the international education of their students, including Georgetown University; the School for International Training; Michigan State University; Kalamazoo College; and el Instituto Internacional, in Madrid, Spain. Michael has authored a wide range of international education, intercultural relations, and comparative literature publications, including Spanish-to-English translations of two classics of 20th-century Spanish literature. He has been the principal investigator of several study abroad research projects, including the Georgetown Consortium Project; frequently consults with faculty and staff about international education topics; and leads intercultural workshops in the United States and abroad. A founding board member of the Forum on Education Abroad, he now serves as a senior faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. Michael is also the recipient of The Forum on Education Abroad's 2012 Peter A. Wollitzer award. R. Michael Paige was professor of international and intercultural education in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota. He was the cofounder of the university's Comparative and International Development Education (CIDE) program and the EdD program for International Educators. His research focused on the impact of study abroad, the development of intercultural competence, the internationalization of higher education, and global engagement. He codirected or served as a research consultant on a number of major studies including Maximizing Study Abroad, the Georgetown Consortium Project, CIEE's Transformative Power of Study Abroad, and Study Abroad for Global Enga

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE PART ONE. SETTING THE SCENE 1. Student Learning Abroad. Paradigms
and Assumptions-Michael Vande Berg, R. Michael Paige, and Kris Hemming Lou
2. Why Students Are and Are Not Learning Abroad. A Review of Recent
Research-R. Michael Paige and Michael Vande Berg PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS OF
TEACHING AND LEARNING 3. Taking Stage Development Theory Seriously.
Implications for Study Abroad-Douglas K. Stuart 4. Paradigmatic Assumptions
of Intercultural Learning-Milton J. Bennett 5. The Intercultural
Development Inventory (IDI). A New Frontier in Assessment and Development
of Intercultural Competence-Mitchell R. Hammer 6. Using Experiential
Learning Theory to Promote Student Learning and Development in Programs of
Education Abroad-Angela M. Passarelli and David A. Kolb 7. The Brain,
Learning, and Study Abroad-James E. Zull 8. Anthropology, Intercultural
Communication, and Study Abroad-Bruce La Brack and Laura Bathurst 9. The
Psychology of Student Learning Abroad-Victor Savicki 10. Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning in Support of Student-Centered Learning
Abroad-Jennifer Meta Robinson PART THREE. PROGRAM APPLICATIONS. INTERVENING
IN STUDENT LEARNING 11. Shifting the Locus of Intercultural Learning.
Intervening Prior to and After Student Learning Abroad-Laura Bathurst and
Bruce La Brack 12. Beyond Immersion. The American University Center of
Provence Experiment in Holistic Intervention-Lilli Engle and John Engle 13.
The Maximizing Study Abroad Project-R. Michael Paige, Tara A. Harvey, and
Kate S. McCleary 14. Facilitating Intercultural Learning Abroad. The
Intentional, Targeted Intervention Model-Kris Hemming Lou and Gabriele
Weber Bosley 15. Developing a Global Learning and Living Community. A Case
Study of Intercultural Experiences on The Scholar Ship-Adriana
Medina-López-Portillo and Riikka Salonen 16. An Experiment in Developing
Teaching and Learning. The Council on International Educational Exchange's
Seminar on Living and Learning Abroad-Michael Vande Berg, Meghan Quinn, and
Catherine Menyhart CONCLUSION 17. Intervening in Student Learning Abroad.
Closing Insights-Kris Hemming Lou, Michael Vande Berg, and R. Michael Paige