Global + Personal: Undergraduate Study Abroad Experiences through the Len...sophielam
This presentation explores the idea of cosmopolitan communication, a world-oriented, ethical approach to interacting with local and distant others, in the online reflections of 30 undergraduate students from American universities participating in globally-based study abroad programs across Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Participants chronicled their semester-long journeys for audiences of economically disadvantaged American schoolchildren using an online blogging platform and, to a lesser extent, through videoconferencing applications. Findings from the study show tensions between narratives where sojourners’ constructed flexible ideas of self and personal identity as they navigated multiple contexts and spaces of belonging while abroad, and their predominantly static descriptions of cultural difference and plurality within the confines of nation-state. Implications for policy and research include assessing the tradeoffs of international and global education curriculum that prioritize ideas of openness, mobility, and hospitality over critical articulations of cultural difference, self-reflexivity, and self-implication.
Global + Personal: Undergraduate Study Abroad Experiences through the Len...sophielam
This presentation explores the idea of cosmopolitan communication, a world-oriented, ethical approach to interacting with local and distant others, in the online reflections of 30 undergraduate students from American universities participating in globally-based study abroad programs across Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Participants chronicled their semester-long journeys for audiences of economically disadvantaged American schoolchildren using an online blogging platform and, to a lesser extent, through videoconferencing applications. Findings from the study show tensions between narratives where sojourners’ constructed flexible ideas of self and personal identity as they navigated multiple contexts and spaces of belonging while abroad, and their predominantly static descriptions of cultural difference and plurality within the confines of nation-state. Implications for policy and research include assessing the tradeoffs of international and global education curriculum that prioritize ideas of openness, mobility, and hospitality over critical articulations of cultural difference, self-reflexivity, and self-implication.
Presentation given at the Inspire 2009 conference in Bucharest. Originally intended to be titled ´What if there was no TV´, during the preparation I noticed several trends that led me to change the title to Ádvertising is Dead´. Every new technology has a shorter curve from introduction to irritation. It´s time for a new approach, which I call the Attraction Model.
You can download this presentation over at www.slideshare.net/futurelab
I am available for speeches and presentations at your event.
ESAB UPC Enginyeria de biosistemes curs 2012-13Lourdes Puig
Aquesta és la presentació de l'ESAB pels estudiants de batxillerat interessats a cursar una de les enginyeries de biosistemes: enginyeria agrícola, enginyeria agroambiental i del paisatge, enginyeria alimentària, enginyeria de sistemes biològics.
Presentation given at the Inspire 2009 conference in Bucharest. Originally intended to be titled ´What if there was no TV´, during the preparation I noticed several trends that led me to change the title to Ádvertising is Dead´. Every new technology has a shorter curve from introduction to irritation. It´s time for a new approach, which I call the Attraction Model.
You can download this presentation over at www.slideshare.net/futurelab
I am available for speeches and presentations at your event.
ESAB UPC Enginyeria de biosistemes curs 2012-13Lourdes Puig
Aquesta és la presentació de l'ESAB pels estudiants de batxillerat interessats a cursar una de les enginyeries de biosistemes: enginyeria agrícola, enginyeria agroambiental i del paisatge, enginyeria alimentària, enginyeria de sistemes biològics.