Developing and Sustaining a Study Abroad Program as Viewed Through a Caring Lens

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Stewart Hegedus, ◽  
John McNulty, ◽  
Lisa-Marie Griffiths, ◽  
Arthur Engler, ◽  
Lourdes Cabrera, ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Evaluative Dimension ◽  
Study Abroad Program

Facilitating global learning for students of nursing presents unique challenges. In this paper, the authors describe a study abroad/away program for faculty and students. This experience is part of the students’ plan of study within their 4-year curriculum. The infrastructures needed to initiate the program and lay the foundation for building, implementing, and maintaining the experiences are defined. Students’ blogs are shared in order to illustrate caring nursing practice. Projected plans for future activities and the evaluative dimension are discussed.

Assessing Global Learning in Short-term Study Abroad: Population, Environment, and Society in Shanghai

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel S. Core
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Personal And Social Responsibility ◽  
Long Course ◽  
Study Abroad Program

This teaching note suggests that a short-term study abroad program embedded within a longer course can be a tool for enhancing global learning. The work uses the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Global Learning VALUE rubric to evaluate student work from a spring break seminar to Shanghai, China. The seminar was embedded in a semester-long course examining the connections between demographic, environmental, and social change. After exploring the overlap between two dimensions of global learning and the sociological imagination, I describe the semester-long class and the Shanghai seminar. I then use the perspective taking dimension of the rubric to evaluate student work on China’s aging population and the personal and social responsibility dimension to examine student work on consumption. I conclude with suggestions for deepening global learning that might be employed in other classrooms.

The value of a study abroad program for graduate students in psychology

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Halawani Montes ◽  
Mike Karakashian ◽  
Chrisann Schiro-Geist ◽  
Emer Broadbent ◽  
Jennifer A. Drabowicz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Study Abroad Program

Assessing Language Acquisition and Intercultural Sensitivity Development in Relation to Study Abroad Program Design

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilli Engle ◽  
John Engle
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Education ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Outcomes Assessment ◽  
Statistical Assessment ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
Study Abroad Program

The complexity of international education is such that it is far from easy to move towards significant, objectively measurable, and comparable outcomes. What follows is the preliminary examination of one attempt to generate and interpret meaningful statistical assessment of the study abroad experience, within the context of specifically defined study abroad program types. We will examine the data thus far generated, suggest its limitations, and appeal for a continued gathering of information. We will suggest a structured, coordinated, profession-wide assessment effort that will, we hope, gradually reveal a useful correlation between study abroad learning and the input of program variables such as duration, housing, experiential work and on-site mentoring. If, as a profession, study abroad is to invest in outcomes assessment, it would be sensible for such efforts to utilize profession-wide definitions and standards.

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