Transforming Study Abroad (Paperback)

Paperback. Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including the global/national, culture, native speaker, immersion, and host society. Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of differences in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements. Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts such as culture, native speaker, and immersion from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of differences in daily life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …