ERIC Number: EJ1359674
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Oct
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ISSN: ISSN-1085-4568
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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.
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Disadvantaged, College Faculty, Transformative Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Attitudes, Educational Experience, Blended Learning, Student Mobility, International Educational Exchange, Intercultural Communication, Student Projects, Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Sustainability, Information Technology, Undergraduate Students, Cultural Awareness, STEM Education, Minority Group Students, Cooperative Learning, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Pluralism
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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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