Experiencing Beach in Australia: Study Abroad Students' Perspectives

Autor/inn/en	Nakagawa, Yoshifumi; Payne, Phillip G.
Titel	Experiencing Beach in Australia: Study Abroad Students' Perspectives
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 27 (2011) 1, S.94-108 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Foreign Countries; Study Abroad; Student Attitudes; Outdoor Education; Identification (Psychology); Participant Satisfaction; Student Experience; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Ausland; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Schülerverhalten; Freiluftunterricht; Studienerfahrung; Australien
Abstract	The current "Australian-"ness"" of outdoor environmental education is an evolving "set" of socio-cultural constructions. These constructions can be interpreted within the circumstances of an empirical study of tertiary study abroad students' participation in an undergraduate semester long unit "Experiencing the Australian Landscape" (EAL) as an ambivalent mixture of belonging and beach, or solidity and fluidity. This ambivalence imparts various meanings within and about the Australian context of beach as a "place". The study is based on an interpretive mixed method ethnographic and phenomenological small-scale case study. It finds that the beach experience is influenced by various social discourses, such as neo-colonialism, individualism and mobility. Participants experienced the beach in a fluid sense of non-belonging, despite the EAL intention of fostering a place-responsive pedagogy. In order to understand their experience and its alleged link to an enhanced environmental aware"ness", an embodied dialectic descriptive interpretation of place experience is suggested. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10