Enhancing education abroad through student-led interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research

Stuart Henry and Mei Zhong

Chapter 14 in Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration, 2024, pp 246-261 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Can interdisciplinarity improve the teaching effectiveness of education abroad? We argue that taking an interdisciplinary approach organized around a student-led research project prepares students for meaningful study-abroad experiences and transforms international studies courses from studies about countries and their cultures to studies within other countries and ethnographically within other cultures. In the process, students become active knowledge producers rather than passive knowledge consumers. Their education abroad experience is meaningfully engaged rather than academic tourism. Interdisciplinarity provides the tools to (1) cross boundaries and engage cultures, (2) integrate knowledge learned with knowledge created, and (3) compare and integrate these knowledge sources into a transdisciplinary, personally transformative perspective on local to global problem-solving.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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