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This book examines how the unique perspectives of BIPOC faculty and students must be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum to expose students of color to education abroad experiences, enhance cultural awareness and sensitivity, and lend to a broader diversity and inclusion perspective. This edited volume, written by authors of color, argues that education abroad programs not only provide essential academic and cultural enrichment but can also be an important nexus of innovation. When approached within a creative, interdisciplinary, and holistic framework, these programs are ripe with opportunities to engage various constituencies and a potent source of strategies for bolstering diversity, recruitment, retention, and graduation. Despite a tendency to view study abroad as a luxurious option for persons with wealth and means, the editors and their authors argue that global education should be thought of as a fundamental and integral part of higher education, forall students, in a global era.
List of contents
Chapter 1: FUBU International: Black Faculty Developing Education Abroad Programs for Black and Latin(x) Students.- Chapter 2: Education Abroad as Affirmative Action in the Age of Globalization.- Chapter 3:Culture to Culture: Developing Intercultural Competence through the Education Abroad Experience.- Chapter 4: Explorations of otherness, imposter, and its relationship to cultural identity: Co-creating social and emotional learning Abroad.- Chapter 5: Honor and Grace: Embracing and unpacking the study abroad experience while addressing unconscious bias and stereotypes.- Chapter 6: Representation matters: How Latinx undergraduate students and staff experienced their identities together while abroad.- Chapter 7: They know best: Peer to peer mentorship as a means to engage underrepresented students in Education Abroad.- Chapter 8: Rwanda, Congo and African knowledges informing American ways of being.
About the author
Devin Walker is Director of the Heman Sweatt Center for Black Males at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Linda M. Lyons is Associate Professor and Director of Strategic Outreach & Diversity Initiative at Kennesaw State University, USA.
Seneca Vaught is Associate Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, USA.
