Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook

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Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements. Transforming Study Abroad Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Sample Questions Chapter 1. The Global and the National Recommended Readings Sample Questions Chapter 2. Culture Recommended Readings Sample Questions Activity. Study Abroad Checklist Chapter 3. “Native Speakers” Recommended Readings Sample Questions Chapter 4. Immersion Recommended Readings Activity. Daorba Yduts Sample Questions Chapter 5. Host Society and Host Family Recommended Readings Sample Questions Chapter 6. Border Crossing Recommended Readings Sample Questions Chapter 7. Self-Transformation Recommended Readings Sample Questions Conclusion and Departure References Index