Transforming Study Abroad : : A Handbook / / Neriko Musha Doerr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Doerr, Neriko Musha,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Global and the National: Does the Global Need the National, and If It Does, What’s Wrong with That? -- 2 Culture: Is It a Homogeneous, Static Unit of Difference? -- 3 “Native Speakers” Do They Really Exist, and Should Students Aim to Speak Like Them? -- 4 Immersion: Is It Really about “Living Like a Local”? -- 5 Host Society and Host Family: Who Are They, and Who Shapes Their Lives? -- 6 Border Crossing: Do We Instead Construct Borders through Learning and Volunteering? -- 7 Self-Transformation: Do Assessing and Talking about Self-Transformation Involve Power Politics? -- Conclusion and Departure: New Frameworks for Study Abroad -- References -- Index