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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
     Sample Questions

Chapter 1. The Global and the National: Does the Global Need the National, and If It Does, What’s Wrong with That?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions

Chapter 2. Culture: Is It a Homogeneous, Static Unit of Difference?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions
     Activity: Study Abroad Checklist

Chapter 3. “Native Speakers”: Do They Really Exist, and Should Students Aim to Speak Like Them?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions

Chapter 4. Immersion: Is It Really about “Living Like a Local”?
     Recommended Readings
     Activity: Daorba Yduts
     Sample Questions

Chapter 5. Host Society and Host Family: Who Are They, and Who Shapes Their Lives?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions

Chapter 6. Border Crossing: Do We Instead Construct Borders through Learning and Volunteering?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions

Chapter 7. Self-Transformation: Do Assessing and Talking about Self-Transformation Involve Power Politics?
     Recommended Readings
     Sample Questions

Conclusion and Departure: New Frameworks for Study Abroad

References
Index

Transforming Study Abroad

A Handbook

Neriko Musha Doerr

232 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78920-115-4 Hb Published (December 2018)

eISBN 978-1-78920-116-1 eBook