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Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students’ linguistic, cultural and personal development. This book explores ‘the social turn’ in the fields of study abroad and language learning strategies. The longitudinal qualitative study reported in this volume investigates the international educational experiences of Arab university students from diverse countries (Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates) and represents one of the few empirical studies to capture an in-depth understanding of the study abroad experiences of newly-arrived international students in higher education. Particular attention is paid to their changing learning goals, underlying motivations and strategy uses during their attendance on both short and long academic programmes in a study abroad context. It also examines their past language learning experiences in their homelands retrospectively. Readers will gain a better understanding of international students’ study abroad experiences in terms of their expectations, aspirations, diverse difficulties and the strategies they deploy to deal with these difficulties.

Students, Foreign --- Education, Higher --- Foreign study --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Education --- Social aspects --- Arab students. --- EFL. --- Intercultural communication. --- International students. --- Language learning strategies. --- SLA. --- Sociocultural perspectives. --- future self. --- future visions. --- higher education. --- identities. --- language acquisition. --- language learning goals. --- motivation. --- strategy use. --- study abroad experiences. --- study abroad.

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How do middle-class Americans become aware of distant social problems and act against them? US colleges, congregations, and seminaries increasingly promote immersion travel as a way to bridge global distance, produce empathy, and increase global awareness. But does it? Drawing from a mixed methods study of a progressive, religious immersion travel organization at the US-Mexico border, Empathy Beyond US Borders provides a broad sociological context for the rise of immersion travel as a form of transnational civic engagement. Gary J. Adler, Jr follows alongside immersion travelers as they meet undocumented immigrants, walk desert trails, and witness deportations. His close observations combine with interviews and surveys to evaluate the potential of this civic action, while developing theory about culture, empathy, and progressive religion in transnational civic life. This timely book describes the moralization of travel, the organizational challenges of transnational engagement, and the difficulty of feeling transformed but not knowing how to help.

Volunteer tourism. --- Foreign study. --- International travel --- Americans --- Volunteer workers in social services. --- Americans in foreign countries --- Travel --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Education --- Students, Foreign --- Tourism --- Social aspects. --- BorderLinks (Program) --- Tucson Ecumenical Council. --- Foreign countries.

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This book is a genre-breaking response to the literature on study abroad. It stakes claim to an uncharted space between reflective pedagogy, public history studies, and investigations into dark tourism. Drawing on the author’s experience of teaching short-term summer programs and courses in London between 2011 and 2018 that focused wholly or in part on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, the book analyzes experiential learning in the study abroad context. The book is informed by the instructor’s reflections; students’ informal essays and anonymous evaluations; and the scholarship of teaching and learning. It begins by situating programs and courses on the Whitechapel murders in the context of debates about overseas and experiential learning. It then proceeds to discuss the constraints to and possibilities for devising study abroad programs to include graduate students in humanistic disciplines; assignments and classroom activities utilized, including those with a reenactment component; the ethical complexities of teaching at dark sites; and the pedagogical implications of learning about Jack the Ripper in an age of terror. It concludes with reflections on the differences between study abroad programs and courses in cultivating students’ global-mindedness.

Jack, --- Study skills. --- Foreign study. --- Social history. --- Civilization-History. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Curriculum planning. --- Studying abroad. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Social History. --- Cultural History. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Curriculum Studies. --- Curriculum development --- Education --- Instructional systems --- Planning --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Students, Foreign --- How to study --- Learning, Art of --- Method of study --- Study, Method of --- Study methods --- Life skills --- Curricula --- Design --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Civilization—History. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Curriculums (Courses of study). --- Education—Curricula. --- Core curriculum --- Courses of study --- Curricula (Courses of study) --- Curriculums (Courses of study) --- Schools --- Study, Courses of --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism

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This book takes a critical look at the internationalisation of higher education and argues for the importance of grounding education in spiritual perspectives. Using spiritual traditions to review the practices, programmes, and philosophies of learning that internationalise universities, the author proposes a paradigm for internationalisation that respects other ways of knowing. This focus seeks to decolonize knowledge and promote intercultural understanding, as well as help students achieve holistic personal development while studying abroad.

Education, Higher. --- Education, Higher --- Religious aspects. --- Education --- Study skills. --- Foreign study. --- Religion and education. --- Educational psychology. --- Spirituality. --- Educational Philosophy. --- Studying abroad. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Religion and Education. --- Educational Psychology. --- Philosophy. --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Students, Foreign --- Psychology --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- How to study --- Learning, Art of --- Method of study --- Study, Method of --- Study methods --- Life skills --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education—Philosophy. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Church and education. --- Education—Psychology. --- Education and church --- Education, Comparative --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- History