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Unsettling creativity: intercultural spaces, study abroad and internationlization beyond the curriculum

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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Cassandra AthertonCassandra Atherton, Karen Le RossignolKaren Le Rossignol
This chapter argues that short-term student Study Tours, coupled with preparatory and reflective classes on the home campus, are a more successful way of internationalizing the curriculum and promoting intercultural reflection than the more traditional, longer term student exchange. This is because taking students out of their comfort zones to travel overseas in a study intensive promotes greater ‘productive discomfort’ while supporting this process with classes on the home campus promotes its life changing effects. This chapter draws on two important Study Tours in Creative Writing and Creative and Commercial Entrepreneurship at Deakin University, Australia. The first is an outbound Study Tour to the United States and the second is an inbound Study Tour from India. These Study Tours foreground an important ‘unsettling’ of creativity that impacts on the students’ thinking and writing processes, and prepares them most effectively for their role as global citizens.

History

Pagination

303-321

ISBN-13

9788571137387

Language

eng

Publication classification

B Book chapter, B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

[2016, Pontes]

Editor/Contributor(s)

de Luna J

Publisher

[Pontes]

Place of publication

[Brasil]

Title of book

Internacionalizacao do curriculo