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Putting the Local in Global Education

Models for Transformative Learning Through Domestic Off-Campus Programs

Av Neal W. Sobania

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The position taken in this volume is that domestic off-campus study can be just as powerful a transformative learning experience as study overseas, and that domestic programs can equally expand students’ horizons, their knowledge of global issues and processes, their familiarity and experience with cultural diversity, their intercultural skills, and sense of citizenship.This book presents both the rationale for and examples of “study away”, an inclusive concept that embraces study abroad while advocating for a wide variety of domestic study programs, including community-based education programs that employ academic service-learning and internships.With the growing diversification—regionally, demographically, culturally, and socio-economically—of developed economies such as the US, the local is potentially a “doorstep to the planet” and presents opportunities for global learning. Moreover, study away programs can address many of the problematic issues associated with study abroad, such as access, finance, participation, health and safety, and faculty support. Between lower costs, the potential to increase the participation of student cohorts typically under-represented in study abroad, the lowering of language barriers, and the engagement of faculty whose disciplines focus on domestic issues, study at home can greatly expand the reach of global learning.The book is organized in five sections, the first providing a framework and the rationale for domestic study way programs; addressing administrative support for domestic vs. study abroad programs; exploring program goals, organization, structure, assessment and continuous improvement; and considering the distinct pedagogies of experiential and transformative education.The second section focuses on Semester Long Faculty Led Programs, featuring examples of programs located in a wide variety of locations – from investigations into history, immigration, culture, and the environment through localities in the West and the Lowcountry to exploring globalization in L.A and New York. Section three highlights five Short Term Faculty Led Programs. While each includes an intensive immersive study away experience, two illustrate how a 7 – 10 day study away experience can be effectively embedded into a regular course taught on campus. The fourth section, on Consortium Programs, describes programs that are either sponsored by a college that makes its program available to consortium members and non-members, or is offered by an independent non-for-profit to which institutions send their students. The final section on Community Engagement and Domestic Study Away addresses the place of community-based education in global learning and provides examples of academic programs that employ service-learning as a tool for collaborative learning, focusing on issues of pedagogy, faculty development and the building long-term reciprocal relationship with community partners to co-create knowledge.The book is intended for study abroad professionals, multicultural educators, student affairs professionals, alternative spring break directors, and higher education administrators concerned about affordably expanding global education opportunities.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-05-08
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 666 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 392
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • ISBN: 9781620361672
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Neal W. Sobania is the Executive Director of the Wang Center for International Programs and Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. As a teacher he has taught a wider range of courses in African history and African studies, and as an international educator has held many elected positions at both the regional and national level. He has been involved with Ethiopia for nearly forty years, first as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, then a staff member, and now as an active scholar.

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"Putting the Local in Global Education reminds us of how important it is to focus more on what students are learning than where they are studying. By linking complex questions of local and global impact, identity, power, and justice, the authors contribute to critical conversations about how we might more broadly define global learning. As a result, this book will encourage curricular and pedagogical experimentation and, I hope, lead to new ways that faculty and students may come to recognize the global in their communities and deepen their appreciation for the complexities of their interconnected lives."Kevin Hovland, Senior Director, Academic ProgramsNAFSA"The time has come for all international educators to consider more seriously how we actively bridge global learning with the local, domestic context. Putting the Local in Global Education is a critical read for those educators who seek to ensure that global learning is accessible for all students – not just those who are able to study abroad."Gayle Woodruff, Director, Curriculum and Campus InternationalizationUniversity of Minnesota"This text adds valuable and necessary perspective to the field of global learning. The framing chapters and case studies contained within this volume provide practical guidance as well as a deep examination of how domestic off-campus study away programs align with initiatives around intercultural competence, diversity, community engagement, and social justice. With discussion of pedagogical strategies, assessment, policies, and risks, this book is a must-read for anyone involved with domestic study-away in higher education."Stephanie Stokamer, Ed.D., Director & Assistant Professor, Center for Civic EngagementPacific University"For over 100 years, we have used geographically marked terms—like distant lands, overseas study, education abroad, and international education—to mark a global education. The learning models assembled in this volume help us to see that the ‘global’ is no longer somewhere ‘out there’; it is right here, at our doorstep, touching all of our lives, and inviting a new generation of 'rooted cosmopolitans' to help create the kind of world we want and need."Richard Slimbach, Azusa Pacific University“Simply put, the chapters in this volume are interesting and important. They are grounded in existing programs, giving us real examples of what is possible. And they are theoretically challenging, raising questions about the construction of key concepts in ways that could and should encourage us to examine institutional practices. As a volume, there is clearly a call to embrace domestic Study Away as a legitimate practice and strategy that should be more central to higher education, especially our efforts at internationalization. Count me in as one college president who is ready to shift his thinking.”Adam Weinberg, President, Denison University“For decades, community engagement and international education faculty and staff have been spinning hypotheses about how the local can be global; how the processes for quality engagement through community-based learning and study abroad are fundamentally parallel – if not the same. Finally, a group of scholars and practitioners have gathered the wisdom of these discrete fields in one location, sharing systematic program models, pedagogical approaches, and evaluation methods that clarify the full potential of domestic global learning.”Eric Hartman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Staley School of Leadership StudiesKansas State University

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