"I Never Meant to Say That": Rhetoric in Education Abroad

Autor/in	Woolf, Michael
Titel	"I Never Meant to Say That": Rhetoric in Education Abroad
Quelle	In: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 35 (2023) 1, S.188-208 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4568
DOI	10.36366/frontiers.v35i1.761
Schlagwörter	Rhetoric; Study Abroad; International Education; Ideology; Nationalism; Beliefs; Language Usage; Higher Education; Discourse Analysis; Politics of Education; Foreign Policy; National Security; Culture + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rhetorik; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Internationale Erziehung; Ideologie; Nationalismus; Belief; Glaube; Sprachgebrauch; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Diskursanalyse; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Außenpolitik; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit; Kultur
Abstract	We function in an increasingly politicized environment, hostile to Socratic discourse and the pedagogies of education abroad. The classroom has become a battleground in which ideologies of right and left collide, making debate and dissent problematic. These pressures have distorted the ways in which we talk about our endeavors. We believe that international education is a social good with benefits that transcend individual interest and those of any single country. Yet, if we scratch beneath the surface of the rhetoric of education abroad, we unearth ideas that, inadvertently and unconsciously, mimic neo-conservative elitism and ultra-nationalism. The intent of this essay is to deconstruct those notions and to suggest that an urgent imperative is to revise our agenda, to use language that better reflects the principles that have motivated us to commit to education abroad. The issues analyzed here suggest that, in short, we do not believe what we say, nor do we say what we believe. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01