Michele Scheib and Melissa Mitchell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300116304
- eISBN:
- 9780300144994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300116304.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter addresses numerous reasons why students with disabilities have yet to reach parity with their nondisabled peers in education abroad. The discussion here also challenges people leading ...
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This chapter addresses numerous reasons why students with disabilities have yet to reach parity with their nondisabled peers in education abroad. The discussion here also challenges people leading these study abroad programs to embrace new concepts, question their preconceptions, and imagine possibilities for all students to go overseas. While students repeatedly hear the terms “global economy” and “globalization,” they may remain unsure of what these terms mean for their future professions or their current educational paths. What attracts students with and without disabilities to study abroad is “a desire to experience another culture or to see another part of the world.” While nearly half of all college students express an interest in studying abroad, the number of students who actually pursue a program is considerably smaller.Less
This chapter addresses numerous reasons why students with disabilities have yet to reach parity with their nondisabled peers in education abroad. The discussion here also challenges people leading these study abroad programs to embrace new concepts, question their preconceptions, and imagine possibilities for all students to go overseas. While students repeatedly hear the terms “global economy” and “globalization,” they may remain unsure of what these terms mean for their future professions or their current educational paths. What attracts students with and without disabilities to study abroad is “a desire to experience another culture or to see another part of the world.” While nearly half of all college students express an interest in studying abroad, the number of students who actually pursue a program is considerably smaller.
Edward J. M. Rhoads
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028863
- eISBN:
- 9789882207424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028863.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) to the United States in the 1870s was a transnational undertaking and was the first and the most ambitious of the four study abroad programs that the Qing ...
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The Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) to the United States in the 1870s was a transnational undertaking and was the first and the most ambitious of the four study abroad programs that the Qing government launched in the late nineteenth century. However, it is often considered a failed venture because the program was cut short in midstream. Even if CEM had not been shortened, the returned students would not have revolutionized Chinese society because self-strengthening was never intended to transform China. Its aims were to borrow the superior technology of the West in order to protect the cultural essence of the Confucian order. The students were very unhappy because their talents were not better utilized. Some of the students went back to the United States, finished their studies, settled there, and were among the founding members of the emergent Chinese American community.Less
The Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) to the United States in the 1870s was a transnational undertaking and was the first and the most ambitious of the four study abroad programs that the Qing government launched in the late nineteenth century. However, it is often considered a failed venture because the program was cut short in midstream. Even if CEM had not been shortened, the returned students would not have revolutionized Chinese society because self-strengthening was never intended to transform China. Its aims were to borrow the superior technology of the West in order to protect the cultural essence of the Confucian order. The students were very unhappy because their talents were not better utilized. Some of the students went back to the United States, finished their studies, settled there, and were among the founding members of the emergent Chinese American community.
Robert Wuthnow
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520259157
- eISBN:
- 9780520943063
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520259157.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This book looks systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization. It shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger ...
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This book looks systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization. It shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, it argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey carried out for the writing of this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, the text refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. The book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.Less
This book looks systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization. It shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, it argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey carried out for the writing of this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, the text refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. The book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Madeline Y. Hsu
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040443
- eISBN:
- 9780252098864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040443.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter tracks the early evolution of ideologies and institutions for Chinese study-abroad programs. Transnationalism has characterized the emergence of Chinese modernity, a process framed by ...
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This chapter tracks the early evolution of ideologies and institutions for Chinese study-abroad programs. Transnationalism has characterized the emergence of Chinese modernity, a process framed by China's struggles to manage foreign encroachments along with domestic crises in part through the rapid acquisition and adaptation of western science and technology, political philosophies and institutions, military strategies, and cultural forms. Since the 1870s, Chinese government programs for study abroad have aimed to provide such expertise, strategic and institutional practices that expanded and grew in influence during the twentieth century. A succession of Chinese regimes have sought to direct the activities of Chinese studying abroad (liuxuesheng) as key resources to develop industry and a modern infrastructure for China's economy. As China has modernized by adapting western models across the twentieth century, returned liuxuesheng have wielded significant influence as interpreters of western knowledge, technology, institutions, and ideals in application to Chinese agendas, and have significantly shaped both the Nationalist and Communist parties and constituted a considerable technocratic elite directing economic and educational developments.Less
This chapter tracks the early evolution of ideologies and institutions for Chinese study-abroad programs. Transnationalism has characterized the emergence of Chinese modernity, a process framed by China's struggles to manage foreign encroachments along with domestic crises in part through the rapid acquisition and adaptation of western science and technology, political philosophies and institutions, military strategies, and cultural forms. Since the 1870s, Chinese government programs for study abroad have aimed to provide such expertise, strategic and institutional practices that expanded and grew in influence during the twentieth century. A succession of Chinese regimes have sought to direct the activities of Chinese studying abroad (liuxuesheng) as key resources to develop industry and a modern infrastructure for China's economy. As China has modernized by adapting western models across the twentieth century, returned liuxuesheng have wielded significant influence as interpreters of western knowledge, technology, institutions, and ideals in application to Chinese agendas, and have significantly shaped both the Nationalist and Communist parties and constituted a considerable technocratic elite directing economic and educational developments.
Stephen Luckhurst, Jennifer Cooke, and Julia Buckingham
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846316630
- eISBN:
- 9781846316777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316777.015
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter explores the academic partnerships of the Imperial College of London with French universities. It first examines student exchanges and ‘study abroad’ programmes. It then discusses ...
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This chapter explores the academic partnerships of the Imperial College of London with French universities. It first examines student exchanges and ‘study abroad’ programmes. It then discusses Imperial's partnerships with French institutions, including the Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (Climate-KIC), the IDEA League, and League of European Research Universities. The chapter concludes by considering Imperial's future partnerships with France.Less
This chapter explores the academic partnerships of the Imperial College of London with French universities. It first examines student exchanges and ‘study abroad’ programmes. It then discusses Imperial's partnerships with French institutions, including the Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (Climate-KIC), the IDEA League, and League of European Research Universities. The chapter concludes by considering Imperial's future partnerships with France.
