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Integrating Worlds - How Off-Campus Study Can Transform Undergraduate Education (Hardcover)
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Integrating Worlds - How Off-Campus Study Can Transform Undergraduate Education (Hardcover)
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What if the most powerful education our students ever receive
occurs when they study off-campus? This book takes as its premise
that the powerful potential to de-center and dislocate students'
preconceptions that off-campus study can stimulate and the urgent
need for students to gain a broad understanding of the
interconnectedness of our world, requires us to question and
rethink how we deliver undergraduate education. The authors ask
whether we should strive to make this experience available to all
our students - as a necessity rather than as a supplement or
interlude -- using it to fuel their education and inspire their
careers. They make the case that effective off-campus study
(whether study abroad or study away) begins and ends on the home
campus, requiring its integration into the curriculum, entwining
on-campus and off-campus experiences, and making them mutually
reinforcing. They offer evidence that off-campus study, when
properly designed and implemented, can have a multiplier effect on
learning, particularly when combined with other high-impact
practices; asserting it can provide access to complex cultural and
scientific problems in their natural context, adding practical and
experiential components to classroom learning, and serve as a
springboard for more advanced study and research when students
return to their home campus. This book proposes that faculty or
departments go beyond the generally episodic ways that currently
link on-campus curricula to off-campus experience. It aims to
speak, beyond specialists in international or intercultural
education, to faculty, deans and provosts who may have little
direct experience of study abroad, and feel unprepared to address
an issue that is assuming a growing importance as disciplines and
institutions address the complexities of our rapidly changing
world. The goal of this book is to fuel such conversations.
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