Mind the Gap

Global Learning at Home and Abroad
Herausgeber: Namaste, Nina; Sturgill, Amanda

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates not just student learning, but also faculty experiences, program structures, and pathways that impact global learning, and expands the context of global learning to show its antecedents and impacts as a part of the larger higher education experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781642670578
• ISBN-10: 164267057X
• Artikelnr.: 58298382

Autorenporträt

Nina Namaste is the Arts and Humanities Director for the Elon College Fellows. Amanda Sturgill teaches in the interactive media graduate program at Elon University. Her research focuses on the intersection of education and community-based work, the relationship of religion and media and on new technologies and the news. 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. Michael Vande Berg is vice president for Academic Affairs at the Council on International Educational Exchange. He completed his PhD in comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held leadership positions at several institutions that are unusually committed to the international education of their students, including Georgetown University; the School for International Training; Michigan State University; Kalamazoo College; and el Instituto Internacional, in Madrid, Spain. Michael has authored a wide range of international education, intercultural relations, and comparative literature publications, including Spanish-to-English translations of two classics of 20th-century Spanish literature. He has been the principal investigator of several study abroad research projects, including the Georgetown Consortium Project; frequently consults with faculty and staff about international education topics; and leads intercultural workshops in the United States and abroad. A founding board member of the Forum on Education Abroad, he now serves as a senior faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural C

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword-Jessie L. Moore and Peter Felten Preface. Global
Competency. Where We've Been and Where We Need to Go-Neal W. Sobania and
Michael Vande Berg Introduction-Nina Namaste and Amanda Sturgill Part One.
Intent and Evidence in Designing Effective Global Learning Practices-Amanda
Sturgill 1. Mapping Understandings of Global Engagement-Maureen
Vandermaas-Peeler, Joan Ruelle, and Tim Peeples 2. Approaching
Internationalization as an Ecosystem-Linda Drake Gobbo, Joseph G. HoffPart
Two. Using Multi-Institutional Research on Study Away to Understand the
Context of Gaps-Amanda Sturgill 3. When Does Global Learning Begin?
Recognizing the Value of Student Experiences Prior to Study Abroad/Study
Away-Scott Manning, Zachary Frieders, Lynette Bikos 4. Exploring Patterns
of Student Global Learning Choices. A Multi-Institutional Analysis-Iris
Berdrow, Rebecca Cruise, Ekaterina Levintova, Sabine Smith, Laura Boudon,
Dan Paracka, and Paul M. Worley 5. Crossing Borders at Home. The Promise of
Global Learning Close to Campus-Amanda Sturgill 6. Assessing Intercultural
Competence in Student Writing. A Multi-Institutional Study-Melanie
Rathburn, Jodi Malmgren, Ashley Brenner, Michael Carignan, Jane Hardy, and
Andrea Paras 7. Up for the Challenge? The Role of Disorientation and
Dissonance in Intercultural Learning-Andrea Paras and Lynne Mitchell 8.
Global Competence Development. Blended Learning with the Constructivist
Paradigm-Bert Vercamer, Linda Stuart, and Hazar Yildirim 9. Have Interest,
Will NOT Travel. Unexpected Reasons Why Students Opt Out of International
Study-Ekaterina Levintova, Sabine Smith, Rebecca Cruise, Iris Berdrow,
Laura Boudon, Dan Paracka, Paul M. Worley 10. #FacultyMatter. Faculty
Support and Interventions Integrated Into Global Learning-Prudence Layne,
Sarah Glasco, Joan Gillespie, Dana Gross, Lisa JasinskiPart Three.
Assessing Expanded Notions of Global Learning-Amanda Sturgill 11. Expanding
the Perceptions and Realities of Global Learning. Connecting Disciplines
Through Integrative Global Learning and Assessment-Darla K. Deardorff and
Dawn Michele Whitehead 12. Assessing Global Competency Development in
Diverse Learning Environments-Horane Holgate, Heidi Parker, and Charles A.
Calahan 13. Opportunities and Challenges of Ethical, Effective Global
Learning-Nina Namaste and Amanda Sturgill Epilogue. Global Learning as
High-Quality Engaged Learning-Jessie L. Moore Appendix:Statement on
Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience. Higher-Impact
Study Abroad and Off-Campus Study Editors and Contributors Index