The romance of crossing borders : studying and volunteering abroad /

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What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance - the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing - and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the compli...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967- (Editor ), Davis Taïeb, Hannah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Temas:
Foreign study > Social aspects.
Voluntarism > Social aspects.
International education > Social aspects.
College students > Intellectual life.
Educational anthropology.
Études à l'étranger > Aspect social.
Éducation internationale > Aspect social.
Étudiants > Vie intellectuelle.
Anthropologie et éducation.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
College students > Intellectual life
Educational anthropology
Foreign study > Social aspects
Voluntarism > Social aspects
anthropology.
civic.
coming of age.
cultural experiences.
cultural.
culture.
economic forces.
economics.
education.
educators.
engaging.
english language voluntourism.
family.
foreign travel.
freedom.
language.
liberation.
life changes.
living abroad.
making a difference.
outcasts and outsiders.
overseas travel.
page turner.
personal growth.
political.
self help.
social forces.
social issues.
social science.
students and teachers.
tourism.
travel writing.
travel.
volunteering.
working abroad.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : the romance of study abroad / Michael Woolf
  • Affect and romance in study and volunteer abroad : introducing our project / Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taieb
  • Study abroad and its reasons : a critical overview of the field / Hannah Davis Taieb and Neriko Musha Doerr
  • Passionate displacements into other tongues and towns : a psychoanalytic perspective on shifting into a second language / Karen Rodriguez
  • Sojourn to the dark continent : landscape and affect in an African mobility experience / Bradley Rink
  • Thinking through the romance / Hannah Davis Taieb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum
  • Falling in/out of love with the place : affective investment, perceptions of difference, and learning in study abroad / Neriko Musha Doerr
  • Learning Japanese/Japan in a year abroad in Kyoto : discourse of study abroad
  • Emotions, and construction of self / Yuri Kumagai
  • Smile, one hug : romanticizing "making a difference" to oneself and others through English-language voluntourism / Cori Jakubiak
  • "People with pants" : self-perceptions of worldteach volunteers in the Marshall Islands / Ruochen Richard Li
  • Conclusion / Hannah Davis Taieb and Neriko Musha Doerr.

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