Transforming Study Abroad

Neriko Musha Doerr is an Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include The 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 Taïeb).

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

“Doerr’s work makes a unique contribution to the international education scholarship by grouping together the key terms supporting the dominant discourse and putting them under the spotlight for a closer examination. For easy practical reference, the author chooses to focus on one term in each chapter. While using theories to expose the study abroad clichés, the author manages to keep her language simple and easy to understand.” • McGill Journal of Education“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“A necessary text… [this book] could go far in changing some of the fundamental questions about designing or carrying out study away programs.” • John J. Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna University