TY - JOUR AU - Woolf, Michael PY - 2011/08/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Baggage They Carry: Study Abroad and the Construction of “Europe” in the American Mind
 JF - Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad JA - Frontiers VL - 21 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.36366/frontiers.v21i1.314 UR - https://frontiersjournal.org/index.php/Frontiers/article/view/314 SP - 289-309 AB - <p>The object of this discussion is to explore some of the ways in which&nbsp;Europe has been created and recreated in the American mind and to relate&nbsp;those constructs to the limitations, opportunities and dynamics that may be&nbsp;explored in education abroad. Those constructs represent in part the baggage&nbsp;that students bring with them. In what follows, the structure will recreate the&nbsp;experience of students coming to Europe. The essay explores the baggage they&nbsp;carry; engagement with the European environment and, finally, the process&nbsp;of return. In that structure, which mirrors the experience of the study abroad&nbsp;student, a partial but suggestive set of perspectives emerge that go further than&nbsp;defending the traditional and, instead, present a cogent set of rich realities that&nbsp;collectively create the case for Europe.</p> ER -