Study Abroad and the City: Bringing the Lessons Back Home
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v20i1.299Keywords:
Study Abroad, Education abroad, City, Langauge acquisition, Obstacles in study abroad, Faculty developmentAbstract
In 2005, Beloit College launched its Cities in Transition project, intended to strengthen learning outcomes for students studying abroad at several of its exchange partner universities. The College greatly valued its exchange partner relationships. However, a variety of factors, including living in foreign student dormitories and taking classes for foreigners, made it difficult for students to achieve hoped-for language gains and increased country knowledge. This article discusses the obstacles to learning that students face when studying abroad and how faculty development initiatives have helped Beloit College develop curricular interventions to improve study abroad learning outcomes. Furthermore, these interventions, which have involved experiential learning in the cities in which the students study, have led to curricular innovations in Beloit that have the potential to positively impact both students who study abroad and those who remain in Beloit throughout their undergraduate studies.
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Beloit College (2009–2010). Study abroad evaluation. Unpublished. Office of International Education files, Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
Beloit College (2010). Study abroad evaluation analysis. Unpublished. Office of International Education files, Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
Bennett, J. M. (2008). On becoming a global soul: A path to engagement during study abroad. In V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing intercultural competence and transformation: Theory, research, and application in international education (pp. 13–31). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Bok, D. (1986). Higher learning. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University.
Brewer, E. & Cunningham, K. (Eds.), Integrating study abroad into the curriculum: Theory and practice across the disciplines. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Brewer, E. & Solberg, J. (2010). Preparatory Courses for Students Going to Divergent Sites: Two Examples. In E. Brewer & K. Cunningham (Eds.), Integrating study abroad into the curriculum: Theory and practice across the disciplines (pp. 41–62). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Carlson, J. S., Burn, B. B. Useem, J., & Yachimovicz, D. Study Abroad: The Experience of American Undergraduates. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990.
Deardorff, D. K. (2008). Intercultural competence: A definition, model, and implications for education abroad. In V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing intercultural competence and transformation: Theory, research, and application in international education (pp. 32–52). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Edwards, J. (2000, Winter). The “Other Eden”: Thoughts on American study abroad in Britain. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 6, 83–98.
Green, M. F. and Olson, C. (2003). Internationalizing the campus: A user’s guide. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, Center for Institutional and International Initiatives.
Grünzweig , W. and Rinehart, N. (Eds.) ( 2002). Rockin’ in Red Square: Critical approaches to international education in the age of cyberspace. Münster: LIT.
Kelly, D. (2010 a.) Lessons from geography. In E. Brewer and K. Cunningham (Ed.), Integrating study abroad into the curriculum: Theory and practice across the disciplines (pp. 21–40). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Kelly, D. (2010 b). Student learning in an international setting. In P. Eddy (Ed.) International collaborations: Opportunities, strategies, challenges (pp. 97–107). New Directions for Higher Education 150 (summer).
Krusko, N. (2010). Health and microcredit: Beloit as a laboratory for understanding Nicaragua.” In E. Brewer and K. Cunningham (Ed.), Integrating study abroad into the curriculum: Theory and practice across the disciplines (pp. 155–171). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Kulacki, G. (2000, Winter). Area studies and study abroad: The Chinese experience. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 15, 23–46.
Lynch, K. (1960). The image of the city. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Oliver, D. (2009). Onion domes and skyscapers. Beloit College Magazine, Fall/Winter. Retrieved July 27, 2010 from http://www.beloit.edu/belmag/belmag_wp/?p=650
Pamuk, O. (2005). Istanbul: Memories of a city. (M. Freely, Transl.) New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Pusch, M.D. & Merrill, M. (2008). Reflection, reciprocity, responsibility, and committed relativism: Intercultural development through international service-learning. In V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing intercultural competence and transformation: Theory, research, and application in international education (pp. 297–321). Sterling, VA: Stylus
Scarry, E. (2001). On beauty and being just. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Selby, R. (2008). Designing transformation in international education. In V. Savicki (Ed.), Developing intercultural competence and transformation: Theory, research, and application in international education (pp. 1–10). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Solnit, R. (2005). A field guide to getting lost. New York: Viking.
Sorcinelli, M. D. (2007). Faculty development: The challenge going forward. peerReview (Fall), 4–8. Retrieved July 29, 2010 from http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/prfa07/documents/PRFA07_FacDevl.pdf
Sorcinelli, M.D., Austin, A.E., Eddy, P.L., and Beach, A.L. (2006). Creating the future of faculty development: Learning from the past, understanding the present. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Stohl, M. (2007). We have met the enemy and he is us: The role of the faculty in the internationalization of higher education in the coming decade. Journal of Studies in International Education, 11 (3/4) 359–372.
Vande Berg, M. (2007). Intervening in the learning of U.S. students abroad. Journal of Studies in International Education, 11 (3/4), 392–399.
Vande Berg, M. Paige, R.M., & Connor-Linton, J. (2009). The Georgetown consortium project: Intervening in student learning abroad. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Education Abroad, XVIII (Fall), 1–75.
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2011-03-15
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Brewer, E. (2011). Study Abroad and the City: Bringing the Lessons Back Home. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 20(1), 195–213. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v20i1.299
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