Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolio as Text
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v29i1.382Keywords:
Study abroad, Discourse analysis, Critical social theory, GeographyAbstract
The professionalization of the field of Study Abroad has led to an increase in research on the student experience as well as macro-level analyses of institutional ‘best practices’ for program development and implementation. Yet what has been largely ignored is the international education epistemology embedded in the curation of what I refer to as institutional study abroad portfolios (ISAPs) - the compilation of study abroad programs focusing on specific disciplines or learning activities in particular parts of the world. In this paper, I argue that by using ISAPs as a unit of analysis we can uncover political complexity that is often obfuscated both by institution-level policy analysis as well as program-level evaluation. I present an ISAP analyses of three post-secondary institutions in the U.S. that illustrates how ‘common sense’ geographical and disciplinary pairings come to produce ‘hidden curriculum’ which results in problematic and potentially unintended cartographies of knowledge legitimization.
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Caton, Kellee and Carla Almeida Santos. (2009). Images of the Other: Selling Study Abroad in a Postcolonial World. Journal of Travel Research. 48:191
Childress, L. K. (2009). Planning for internationalization by investing in faculty. Journal of International and Global Studies, 1(1), 30-49.
Clarke, V. (2004). Students' global awareness and attitudes to internationalism in a world of cultural convergence. Journal of Research in International Education, 3(1), 57-70.
Cook, Nancy (2012). I’m here to help: Development Workers, the Politics of Benevolence and Critical Literacy, in Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Education, eds. V. Andreotti and L.M.T.M de Sousa (NY: Routledge, 2012): 124-139.
Crampton, Jeremy and John Kryger. (2006). An Introduction to Critical Geography. ACME Journal.
Crossman, J.E., & Clarke, M. (2009). International experience and graduate employability: stakeholder perceptions on the connection. Higher Education, 59(5), 599-613.
Giroux, Henry (1983). Theories of Reproduction and Resistance in the New Sociology of Education: A Critical Analysis. Harvard Education Review, 53: 257 -293.
Goldstein, Alyosha. (2014). Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present in Introduction to Formations of United States Colonialism, Ed. A. Goldstein. Duke University Press.
Gramsci, Antonio (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks. International Publishers.
Institute of International Education. (2013).Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. Retrieved from http://www.iie.org/opendoors.
Knight, Jane. (2004) Internationalization Remodeled: Definition, Approaches, and Rationales. Journal of Studies in International Education. 8:5
Lyotard, Jean-François. (1984). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, reprint 1997, translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.
Martin, Jane. (1984) What Should We Do with a Hidden Curriculum When We Find One? in The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education. Ed. Giroux, Henry and David Purpel. Berkeley, California: McCutchan Publishing Corporation, 122–139.
Mama, Amina. (2007). Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom. African Studies Review 50(1), 1-26. Cambridge University Press.
Milstein, T. (2005). Transformation aboard: Sojourning and the perceived enhancement of self-efficacy. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29(2), 217-238.
Mitchell, P. (2006). Revisiting effective re-entry programs for returnees from US academic programs. Washington, DC: NAFSA Association of International Educators. Retrieved from: http://www.nafsa.org/resourcelibrary/default.aspx?id=8888
Morphew, Christopher and Matthew Hartley. (2006). Mission Statements: A Thematic Analysis of Rhetoric Across International Type. Journal of Higher Education, 77:3, 456-471
Mostafanezhad, Mary (2013). ‘Getting in Touch with your Inner Angelina’: Celebrity humanitarianism and the cultural politics of gendered generosity in volunteer tourism, Third World Quarterly, 34:3, 485-499
Redden, E. (August 20, 2007). Intermediaries in Study Abroad. Inside Higher Education. Retrieved November 21, 2014,<http://www.insidehighered.com/
news/2007/08/20/abroad#Comments>
Said, Edward. (1979) Orientalism. Vintage, New York.
Stephens, J., & McCallum, R. (2013). Retelling stories, framing culture: traditional story and metanarratives in children's literature. Routledge.
Taylor, L. (2011). Beyond paternalism: Global education with preservice teachers as a practice of implication. In V. Andreotti & M. Souza (Eds.), Postcolonial perspectives on global citizenship education (pp. 177–199). New York, NY: Routledge
Tikly, Leon. (2004). Education and the new imperialism. Comparative Education. 40(2): 173-198.
Wa Thiango, Ngugi (1986). Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, New York: Twayne Publishers.
Zemach-Bersin, Talya (2008). Selling the World: Study Abroad Marketing and the Privatization of Global Citizenship in The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship, Ed. Ross Lewin. Routledge: Francis & Taylor Group.
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2017-04-27
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Ficarra, J. M. (2017). Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolio as Text. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 29(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v29i1.382
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