Passport to Change - Designing Academically Sound, Culturally Relevant Short Term Faculty

Provides a detailed framework and guidance on how to plan and implement a faculty-led study abroad program. Seasoned faculty leaders and administrators describe an overall program development process, comprehensively identify the elements for designing the curriculum, and offer advice and solutions to unique challenges inherent in various types of programs.

List of contents

Foreword by Hilary Landorf Introduction—Susan Lee Pasquarelli, Robert A. Cole, Michael Tyson Acknowledgements Part I. Understanding the Nature of Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs 1. Surveying the Landscape. The Process of Developing Faculty-Led Programs—Robert A. Cole Part II. Designing the Curriculum for Study Abroad. Student Preparation, Experience, and Return 2. Defining an Academically Sound, Culturally Relevant Study Abroad Curriculum— Susan Lee Pasquarelli 3. Guiding Reflection on Cultural Experience. Before, During, and After Study Abroad—Victor Savicki, Michele V. Price 4. Designing and Assessing Outcomes-Based Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs—Darla K. Deardorff 5. Designing the Curriculum for Interdisciplinary Study Abroad. Sustainability Studies in Turkey— Bilge Gokhan Celik, Dale Leavitt, Michael Scully 6. Designing the Curriculum for Field Study Abroad. Marine Biology in Panama and Belize—Paul Webb, Brian Wysor 7. Designing the Curriculum for Global Service Learning Abroad. Power and Health in El Salvador—Autumn Quezada de Tavarez, Kerri Staroscik Warren 8. Designing the Curriculum for Internship Immersion Abroad. Language and Praxis in Spain—Candelas Gala, Javier Garcia Garrido 9. Designing the Curriculum for Cultural Studies Abroad. Intercultural Learning in China—Min Zhou Part III. Implementing the Study Abroad Program 10. Marketing Short-Term Programs. No Students, No Program— Michael J.Tyson 11. Laying the Groundwork. Faculty Preparation for Teaching Abroad—Susan Lee Pasquarelli 12. Speaking from Abroad—Roxanne M. O’Connell Contributor’s Biographies Index

About the author

Susan Lee Pasquarelli earned her doctoral degree in Language, Literacy and Cultural Studies from Boston University in 1996 and is a professor of literacy teacher education at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. Integrating multicultural literature across the K-12 curricula is the focus of her research and teaching. For the past ten years, she led successful short term study abroad programs in Rome and Sicily as well as served on the RWU study abroad advisory board to enhance the proposal process for faculty led programs. Pasquarelli has published and presented research and best practices at regional, national, and international conferences on both the improvement of K-12 literacy instruction and faculty-led short term study abroad programs.
Robert A. Cole is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Roger Williams University. He oversees global and international programs on his campus. He has been a conference program reviewer for groups such as NAFSA and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and has presented at conferences on topics such as the Arab Spring and the role of liberal education in emerging democracies, estranging undergraduate ethnographers through fieldwork abroad, international internships, and situating general education abroad. Cole was a participant on a U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays grant for an immersion, capacity building, and a curriculum development project related to Egypt and the Middle East North Africa region, and a contributor to a US Department of Education (Title VI) Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs grant. He has also developed short-term faculty-led curriculum for students’ cultural immersion in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Northern Germany region. Cole holds a Ph.D. in Communication.
Michael J. Tyson is the Assistant Director for Study Abroad in Wake Forest University’s Center for Global Programs and Studies where he has served as the dedicated representative for all summer abroad programming since 2010. His responsibilities include managing up to twenty WFU short-term faculty-led programs annually, assisting faculty in their program development from inception to completion, and administering program details like marketing, the budgetary process, and student registration. He also advises all students interested in summer study abroad. In addition to his programming and advising responsibilities, he manages the scholarship process for summer programs and acts as an evaluator for the university’s Fulbright Review Committee. He has led student service trips to both Jamaica and Russia and has also spent time teaching English in Mexico. Mike holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a MEd from the University of South Carolina.
Hilary Landorf is Executive Director of the Office of Global Learning Initiatives at Florida International University (FIU). The Office oversees FIU’s university-wide initiative, Global Learning for Global Citizenship, winner of the Institute of International Education’s 2016 Heiskell Award for Internationalizing the Campus. Hilary also serves as Executive Director of the Comparative and International Education Society. She is an Associate Professor in FIU’s School of Education and Human Development and leader of its Master of Science degree program in International and Intercultural Education. Hilary’s expertise centers on visioning, developing, designing, and implementing the policies and practices of global learning efforts in higher education. She writes, consults, and presents internationally on integrating global learning in K-20 educational settings. Her recent publications include “Defining Global Learning at Florida International University” in AAC&U’s Diversity and Democracy, co-authored with Stephanie Doscher; “Global Perspectives on Global Citizenship” in Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education; and “Using Democratic Deliberation in an Internationalization Effort in Higher Education,” in Disrupting Adult and Community Education: Teaching, Learning, and Working in the Periphery.

Summary

This book constitutes a handbook for college and university professors who plan to or already conduct short-term study abroad programs as well as administrators and staff of global and international programs.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Lee (EDT)/ Cole Pasquarelli
• Assisted by: Robert a Cole (Editor), Robert A. Cole (Editor), Susan Lee Pasquarelli (Editor), Michael J Tyson (Editor), Michael J. Tyson (Editor)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781620365472
• ISBN: 978-1-62036-547-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology