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THE MAKING OF GLOBAL CITIZENS THROUGH EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAMS: ALIGNING MISSIONS AND VISIONS WITH EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAMS
by
Teresa Donahue
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2009
Copyright 2009 Teresa Donahue
Object Description
| Title | The making of global citizens through education abroad programs: aligning missions and visions with education abroad programs |
| Author | Donahue, Teresa |
| Author email | tdonahue@usc.edu; tdonahue@mail.sdsu.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-03-03 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-05-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Baca, Reynaldo |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Cole, Darnell Fischer, Linda |
| Abstract | The primary purpose of this study was to assess the ways in which the short, semester and year-long study abroad programs that CSU offers promotes transformational learning, global citizenship and fulfills its mission and vision to graduate globally competent students.; Both the mission and vision of CSU and Mezirow's transformative learning theory or perspective transformation framed this study. The main unit of analysis of this design was the study abroad programs that CSU offers. This was a qualitative design based on different student groups disaggregated by program length (short, semester and year-long) and degree of cultural immersion in the host country. The sampling strategy was a combination of both maximum variation sampling and typical case sampling. I collected qualitative data in the form of 18 semi-structured interviews, six from each, short, semester and year-long programs.; There were three conclusions made from this study. First, in general, the longer and more culturally immersed students were while abroad, the greater their gains in cultural competency. Even though language played a role in the ability of students to immerse in the culture, the lack of target language competency did not preclude students from gaining some degree of cultural competency. Second, study abroad programs in this study that promoted transformative learning in students were the ones that challenged students the most. Language competency did not play a role in the transformative learning of students. The lack of language competency in fact made students' experiences even more challenging. Third, there were two components in this study that are associated with promoting global citizenship. The first component is associated with host culture attributes and the second with the process of conscientization, or the process by which adults "achieve a deepening awareness of both the sociocultural reality which shapes their lives and ...their capacity to transform that reality through action upon it" (Freire, 1997, p. 27 as cited in Mezirow, 1991, p. xvii). To conclude, not all study abroad programs that CSU offers advance its mission and vision to educate intercultural competent students or prepares them for the challenges of the 21st century as global citizens. |
| Keyword | study abroad; education abroad; international programs; international education; global citizenship; transformative learning; intercultural competency |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2161 |
| Rights | Donahue, Teresa |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Donahue-2568 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Donahue-2568.pdf |
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| Full text | THE MAKING OF GLOBAL CITIZENS THROUGH EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAMS: ALIGNING MISSIONS AND VISIONS WITH EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAMS by Teresa Donahue A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2009 Copyright 2009 Teresa Donahue |
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