Transforming Worldviews: Implications of U.S. Study Abroad Programs in Iceland, Japan, Rwanda, and Italy

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Four scholars representing four different nations (Iceland, Japan, Kenya, and Romania) present their research involving U.S. study abroad programs. The discussion involves the examination of U.S. sojourners’ intercultural experience overseas, how intercultural learning experience through study abroad programs contributes to the transformation of the U.S. students’ and faculty’s worldviews, and how the worldview’s (e.g., anti-Americanism) of the host nationals is communicated toward the U.S. Americans abroad.

Sub Unit

• International and Intercultural Communication Division

Chair

• Judith N. Martin, Arizona State University

Respondent

• Kathleen Wong(Lau), Western Michigan Univ

Session Organizer

• Kaori Ishida, The Pennsylvania State University, York