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Doerr, Neriko Musha; Suarez, Richard – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2018
This article investigates how the use of the term "immersion" to describe one's experience abroad performatively interpellates individuals and reproduces power relations. A collaboration between an anthropologist (Doerr) and a study-abroad student (Suarez), it analyzes the student's interpretation of three types of experience he had in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Identification, Immigrants, Power Structure
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This article investigates different kinds of learner subjects that study-abroad programs produce. It is based on discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork in May-September 2011, involving three students from a US college studying abroad short term in Europe. The discourse of immersion in study abroad valorizes a learning-by-doing, individual,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Discourse Analysis, Experiential Learning, Critical Theory
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
The discourse of immersion is prevalent but little analysed in the field of study abroad. Linked generally to learning-by-doing, this discourse has significance for "intercultural education". Based on text analyses of three guidebooks on study abroad, this article suggests four effects of the discourse of immersion: It justifies study abroad as…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Immersion Programs, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach