Hoffa, William and John Pearson (eds.): NAFSA’s Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators. Second Edition. Washington, DC: NAFSA: Association of International Educators. 1997. 492 pp.

Abstract

The United States is a major participant in this enterprise. It receives almost 500,000 students per year and sends another 100,000 of its own overseas. Education abroad has become so popular and important that virtually every U.S. university has an office to manage study abroad advising and programming. In many respects, the field has become a profession with its own body of knowledge, professional standards and ethics, theoretical and conceptual orientations, desired student learning outcomes and institutional goals, and “best” practices. Consistent with education abroad’s transition toward professional status has been the growth of a “study abroad” literature. The volume being reviewed here is one of the centerpieces of that professional literature.