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Enhancing education abroad through student-led interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research

In: Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration

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  • Stuart Henry
  • Mei Zhong

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Can interdisciplinarity improve the teaching effectiveness of education abroad? We argue that taking an interdisciplinary approach organized around a student-led research project prepares students for meaningful study-abroad experiences and transforms international studies courses from studies about countries and their cultures to studies within other countries and ethnographically within other cultures. In the process, students become active knowledge producers rather than passive knowledge consumers. Their education abroad experience is meaningfully engaged rather than academic tourism. Interdisciplinarity provides the tools to (1) cross boundaries and engage cultures, (2) integrate knowledge learned with knowledge created, and (3) compare and integrate these knowledge sources into a transdisciplinary, personally transformative perspective on local to global problem-solving.

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  • Stuart Henry & Mei Zhong, 2024. "Enhancing education abroad through student-led interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research," Chapters, in: Rick Szostak (ed.), Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration, chapter 14, pages 246-261, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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