Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices : Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

ISBN-13: 9780415974578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 268 str.

Joan Elias Gore

Opis

This book examines the development of American undergraduate study abroad to the present day, investigating how powerful derogatory beliefs about international exchange have constrained its growth and examining the policy designed to increase participation in overseas education.
In the early twentieth century, Americans came to perceive U.S. higher education as superior to the European institutions they previously admired. Whereas American men once sought European educations to pursue the professions, they now stayed home. After World War I, study abroad became the domain of undergraduate women, often from private women's colleges perceived to be bastions of wealth and purposeless liberal education. Their presence then and now contributes to the perception that study abroad is a Grand Tour, unconnected to the functional and career-oriented education prized in America.
This book contributes to a new understanding of why negative beliefs have so long defined study overseas; how and why study abroad has been pursued by those who support it; the role overseas education abroad has played in the lives of women who are its primary participants; and to a new foundation upon which to build policy about foreign study in the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

Part I. The Status of Study Abroad 1. The Marginal Role of Study Abroad in American Higher Education Part II. Dominant Beliefs 2. Dominant Beliefs: Study Abroad is a Grand Tour 3. Dominant Beliefs: Study Abroad is an Insignificant Pursuit by Wealthy Women 4. Dominant Beliefs: Study Abroad Offers a Nonprofessional Course of Study Inferior to American Education Part III. Alternative Voices 5. Alternative Voices: Discourse and Belief among Faculty Sponsors of U.S. Study Abroad 6. Alternative Voices: Discourse and Belief among Students Abroad Part IV. The Future of Study Abroad 7. Policy Implications Appendix: Supplementary Charts and Tables Bibliography

O autorze

Joan Elias Gore, PhD, Denmark's International Study Program; 1972-1987 faculty member/ Study Abroad Advisor, University of Virginia; 1987-1997 with U.S. and British international exchange agencies; Publications including Cost-Effective Techniques for Internationalizing the Campus and Curriculum, articles, and book chapters. She has participated in panels, workshops, and professional training programs for international education and academic associations.