Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do about It by Vande Berg, Michael

Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do About It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781579227142)

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Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do about It by Vande Berg, Michael

Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do About It

$42.95
Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do about It by Vande Berg, Michael

Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They're Not, and What We Can Do About It

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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This book looks into whether these criticisms are justified-and what can be done if they are. This book provokes readers to reconsider long-held assumptions, beliefs and practices about teaching and learning in study abroad and to reexamine the design and delivery of their programs.



Author: Michael Vande Berg
ISBN-10: 1579227147
ISBN-13: 9781579227142
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2012
Pages: 470
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Michael Vande Berg
By Michael Vande Berg
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Michael Vande Berg is vice president for Academic Affairs at the Council on International Educational Exchange. He completed his PhD in comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has held leadership positions at several institutions that are unusually committed to the international education of their students, including Georgetown University; the School for International Training; Michigan State University; Kalamazoo College; and el Instituto Internacional, in Madrid, Spain. Michael has authored a wide range of international education, intercultural relations, and comparative literature publications, including Spanish-to-English translations of two classics of 20th-century Spanish literature. He has been the principal investigator of several study abroad research projects, including the Georgetown Consortium Project; frequently consults with faculty and staff about international education topics; and leads intercultural workshops in the United States and abroad. A founding board member of the Forum on Education Abroad, he now serves as a senior faculty member of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. Michael is also the recipient of The Forum on Education Abroad's 2012 Peter A. Wollitzer award. R. Michael Paige was professor of international and intercultural education in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota. He was the cofounder of the university's Comparative and International Development Education (CIDE) program and the EdD program for International Educators. His research focused on the impact of study abroad, the development of intercultural competence, the internationalization of higher education, and global engagement. He codirected or served as a research consultant on a number of major studies including Maximizing Study Abroad, the Georgetown Consortium Project, CIEE's Transformative Power of Study Abroad, and Study Abroad for Global Enga

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