Toward Decolonizing Development Education: Study Tours as Embodied, Reflexive, and Mud-up

2021 ◽  
pp. 0169796X2110653
Author(s):  
Yaso Nadarajah ◽  
Glenda Mejía ◽  
Supriya Pattanayak ◽  
Srinivas Gomango ◽  
D. N. Rao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tribal Community ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Immense Potential

The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied insights. Such learnings “from” and “with” knowledges negated by Western modernity are in essence decolonial pedagogies, enabling students to critically examine their own preconceived ideas of development, while building skills to meaningfully navigate the contested contemporary field. Study tours, we argue, have immense potential toward decolonizing development education.

scholarly journals Meta-travel: A critical inquiry into a China Study Tour

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Riggan ◽  
S. Sonya Gwak ◽  
Joy Lesnick ◽  
Kara Jackson ◽  
Stacey Olitsky
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Reflection Process ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Reflection Component ◽  
Do So

This paper questions whether participants on short-term study tours typically allow themselves and their understandings about the world to be transformed by their experiences or if these brief trips only serve to reify and legitimize preconceived notions and stereotypes about the world. Based on an analysis of U.S. graduate students’ experiences on a trip to China, we argue that short-term study tours have the potential to provide a valuable opportunity for participants to deepen their understanding of themselves and their role in the world. However, they can only do so if a critical reflection component is incorporated in the study tour. Specifically, short-term study travel can help participants understand the situated and shifting nature of their identities as students and travelers. It can also deepen their awareness of how they are positioned globally as students of a U.S. based institution, and explore how positionality, identity, and stereotypes shape their worldview during study tours. By engaging in an intentional, critical reflection process, we argue that participants can experience deeper emotional and intellectual transformation during short-term study tours. We use the case of a study tour to China to propose a framework for reflection during short-term study travel that we call “meta-travel.”

Experiential Learning by Business Students on Short Term Study Tours

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High

This study incorporates a qualitative, case study based approach to analyze the impact of a short domestic study tour on business students of a Mumbai based college. The methods for data collection were structured questionnaires, feedback forms, interviews, focus groups, and work diaries. Short and economical study tours within the country have succeeded tremendously in their objective and have provided a very high level of learning experiences. There is strong evidence of experiential learning which seem to produce a significant, almost magical, impact on students.

scholarly journals An Accounting International Experience Course

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Redd Johnson ◽  
Holly R. Rudolph ◽  
Robert A. Seay
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
State University ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Short Term Study

Accounting students need practical opportunities to personally experience other cultures and international business practices if they are to effectively compete in today’s global marketplace.  In order to address this need, the Department of Accounting at Murray State University offers an international experience course which includes a short-term study tour of London.  This paper examines the rationale for an accounting international experience course, provides an overview of the class and presents a suggested itinerary for the London trip.

International Short-Term Immersion Study Tours: Gen Z, Curriculum, and Trauma-Informed Tours

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Joseph Squillace ◽  
Adam Cassell
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Global Curriculum ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Cost Efficient

With rapid globalization and increased connection among people of the world in the 21st century, embedding global education in the curriculum is now key for interactions in the pluralistic world of today. short-term study abroad programs combine global curriculum with experiences in international settings. However, certain factors in our contemporary world may discourage faculty from considering running these courses. This article seeks to provide educators and college administrators with information about important logistics and curriculum to consider when planning and taking Gen Z’ers on a short-term study tour program, including incorporating trauma-informed concepts. This paper provides creative ways for faculty to develop short-term study tour courses, and integrates ways to assist a population of students (Gen Z’ers) that older faculty members may not be able to fully “relate” to, as well as ways to be cost-efficient and inclusive.

Critical Components in Preparing Students for Short-Term Study Tours to Asia

2016 ◽  
pp. 188-214
Author(s):  
Tracey Bretag ◽  
Robert van der Veen ◽  
Sonia Saddiqui ◽  
Ying Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Student Mobility ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Student Focus ◽  
Critical Components

Universities need to provide effective support for students and staff to successfully engage in intercultural learning activities as part of outbound mobility experiences. This chapter addresses the less researched area of pre-departure support for student mobility experiences in Asia. The research participants for this study included eight academic study tour leaders and three administrative staff, plus five student focus groups representing various disciplines in one Australian university. All participants had recently undertaken a short-term study tour to an Asian destination. This chapter identifies the key areas of preparation for a short-term study tour from the multiple perspectives of those who organise and lead the study tour, to those who participate in the experience. The chapter concludes with recommendations for how preparation for short-term study tours may be improved, including a discussion of roles and responsibilities for students, staff and their institutions.

SHORT TERM STUDY TOURS A CASE STUDY: MARKETING THE TWO WEEK STUDY TOUR

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Peter Reday ◽  
Roy Counts ◽  
Larry Zielke ◽  
Andrew Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Study Tour ◽  
Short Term Study

Cultural Awareness of Students in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Mixed-Methods Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1231-1242
Author(s):  
Celeste Domsch ◽  
Lori Stiritz ◽  
Jay Huff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Short Term Study

Purpose This study used a mixed-methods design to assess changes in students' cultural awareness during and following a short-term study abroad. Method Thirty-six undergraduate and graduate students participated in a 2-week study abroad to England during the summers of 2016 and 2017. Quantitative data were collected using standardized self-report measures administered prior to departure and after returning to the United States and were analyzed using paired-samples t tests. Qualitative data were collected in the form of daily journal reflections during the trip and interviews after returning to the United States and analyzed using phenomenological methods. Results No statistically significant changes were evident on any standardized self-report measures once corrections for multiple t tests were applied. In addition, a ceiling effect was found on one measure. On the qualitative measures, themes from student transcripts included increased global awareness and a sense of personal growth. Conclusions Measuring cultural awareness poses many challenges. One is that social desirability bias may influence responses. A second is that current measures of cultural competence may exhibit ceiling or floor effects. Analysis of qualitative data may be more useful in examining effects of participation in a short-term study abroad, which appears to result in decreased ethnocentrism and increased global awareness in communication sciences and disorders students. Future work may wish to consider the long-term effects of participation in a study abroad for emerging professionals in the field.

1696: May Phyllanthus Niruri ( Uriston®) Affect the Efficacy of ESWL on Renal Stones? A Prospective, Randomised Short Term Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 173 (4S) ◽  
pp. 460-460
Author(s):  
Antonio Celia ◽  
Salvatore Micali ◽  
Sighinolfi Maria Chiara ◽  
Grande Marco ◽  
Di Pietro Corradino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Stones ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Phyllanthus Niruri ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Short Term Study

Emplacing Berlin: Digital Itineraries and Short-term Study Abroad in the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Apgar
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
The City

As destination of choice for many short-term study abroad programs, Berlin offers students of German language, culture and history a number of sites richly layered with significance. The complexities of these sites and the competing narratives that surround them are difficult for students to grasp in a condensed period of time. Using approaches from the spatial humanities, this article offers a case study for enhancing student learning through the creation of digital maps and itineraries in a campus-based course for subsequent use during a three-week program in Berlin. In particular, the concept of deep mapping is discussed as a means of augmenting understanding of the city and its history from a narrative across time to a narrative across the physical space of the city. As itineraries, these course-based projects were replicated on site. In moving from the digital environment to the urban landscape, this article concludes by noting meanings uncovered and narratives formed as we moved through the physical space of the city.

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