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ERIC Number: EJ1359674
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Oct
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1085-4568
EISSN: EISSN-2380-8144
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Authentic Collaboration and Active Commitment to Equity: An Evolving Case of Centering Marginalized Voices in Education Abroad
Nancy Erbstein; Jonathan K. London; Bijaya Raj Poudel; Samrat Katwal
Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, v34 n3 p73-93 Oct 2022
"Nepal: Community, Technology and Sustainability" brings together cohorts of US-based university students and Nepalese university students in a hybrid online/mobility program that supports intercultural, interdisciplinary, community-engaged, project-based learning. The program seeks to adopt a decolonial pedagogical model that centers the Nepali co-instructors, students, and host community partners as critical knowledge holders, sovereigns of their own development, and co-producers of the educational experience. This article provides a conceptual framework for centering typically marginalized voices, a description of the program and an edited version of a dialogue between several of the course co-instructors. Our major findings are that to achieve these ends, the values of decolonialization and equitable voice must be built into all elements of the program; that this requires pushing against many conventions of education abroad programming and, in some cases, community practices; and that this push can yield transformative outcomes for students, instructors, and communities.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nepal; California
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