TY - BOOK ID - 138194070 TI - Transforming study abroad : a handbook PY - 2019 SN - 9781789201154 1789201152 1789201160 PB - New York Berghahn Books DB - UniCat KW - Foreign study KW - Educational change KW - Foreign study. KW - Educational change. KW - anthropology. KW - college students. KW - cultural anthropology. KW - culture. KW - education. KW - educational studies. KW - engaging. KW - host society. KW - immersion. KW - immersive environment. KW - learning in a new context. KW - learning in another country. KW - life changes. KW - life lessons. KW - linguistics. KW - lively. KW - meaningful travel. KW - narrative studies. KW - native speaker. KW - political science. KW - realistic. KW - students and teachers. KW - study abroad practices. KW - study abroad practitioners. KW - study abroad terms. KW - study abroad. KW - the global. KW - the national. KW - travel. KW - undergraduate students. KW - university students. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138194070 AB - Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements. (Provided by publisher) ER -