Transforming Study Abroad

Neriko Musha Doerr is an Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include Meaningful Inconsistencies: Bicultural Nationhood, Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Berghahn, 2009), The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad (Berghahn, 2017, with Hannah Taieb).

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

"This is an important contribution to the literature of international education. It deconstructs unexamined orthodoxies and proposes alternative ways of thinking about study abroad that could enrich the theoretical basis for this form of education, and lead practitioners to review what and how they teach." Michael Woolf, CAPA, The Global Education Network