Study Abroad and Global Citizenship: Paradoxes and Possibilities

2018 ◽  
pp. 573-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Pike ◽  
Mackenzie Sillem
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Global Citizenship

Can Higher Education Really Produce Global Citizens?

2017 ◽  
pp. 304-324
Author(s):  
David Starr-Glass
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Student ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Comprehensive Internationalization ◽  
International Student Programs

Globalization profoundly impacts our economics, societies, and educational systems yet doubt exists in higher education as to an appropriate response. Some colleges have embarked on a process of comprehensive internationalization; others are considering how to graduates global citizens, even although global citizenship remains a deeply contested issue. Considering teaching and learning perspectives, particularly perspectives informed by acquisition and participation metaphors, the chapter critiques higher education efforts to develop global citizenship. It examines inbound international student programs, outbound study abroad initiatives, and changes in learner identification and self-categorization. It argues that while student mobility initiatives have great potential, that potential goes unrealized unless learners have been comprehensibly prepared to engage actively with their new environments and experiences, and to consciously reconsider their identities and self-categorizations.

scholarly journals Feeling Our Way: Emotions and the Politics of Global Citizenship in Study Abroad Programming

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Nicole Laliberté ◽  
Charlene Waddell
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Shame And Guilt ◽  
Emotional Politics ◽  
Study Abroad Program ◽  
The Relationship

The terms ‘solidarity’ and ‘ethical travel’ were used to frame a one-week study abroad program to Guatemala. The students involved came from a Canadian university and were primed through pre-trip meetings and program materials to expect their trip to produce good feelings of connection and support. However, many of the students experienced bad feelings that were variously described as frustration, disappointment, shame, and guilt. In this paper, we take the ‘bad feelings’ of this trip seriously to understand the relationship between this study abroad program and the (re)production of privilege. Based on interviews with student participants, we identify a trio of emotional responses –shame/guilt, frustration/anger, and critical empathy– that highlight the variability of student responses and their political implications. We argue that this critical analysis of emotional politics is an underutilized tool for examining how study abroad programs can simultaneously (re)produce and challenge privilege.  

scholarly journals Global Citizenship through Global Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-147
Author(s):  
Lee Stoner ◽  
Michael A. Tarrant ◽  
Lane Perry ◽  
Mikell Gleason ◽  
Daniel Wadsworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Study Abroad Program

A collaborative study abroad program (between one New Zealand and one U.S. university) on the theme of global health has been offered three times in Australia with 59 students registered to date. The course was developed because it is believed that higher education can play a role in improving global health through the fostering of global citizenship A global citizen is one who is aware of global issues, socially responsible, and civica lly engaged. From this perspective, personal health is not solely an individual , self serving act; rather, the consequences of an individual’s lifestyle behaviors have deep and wide consequences extending to the community, national, and global contexts. Our paper provides a narrative on the framework used to develop the aforementioned global health study abroad course, including 1 ) an initial discussion on the intricate relationship between global citizenship and global health; 2 ) previous evidence demonstrating that short term study abroad has the potential to foster global citizenship; and 3 ) the specific process used to develop the current short term, faculty led, interdisciplinary, experiential study abroad course.

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