Rockin' in Red Square: Critical Approaches to International Education in the Age of Cyberculture

by Grunzweig, Walter

• ISBN13: 9783825862053
• ISBN10: 3825862054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Summary

International educators can take the high road towards rigorous investment in the ideals of true cultural exchange or continue down the low road to customer satisfaction and design programs that reduce or eliminate challenges. International education structured according to the latter principle is little more than just another product in the global market-place. In spite of the process of "globalization" and partly because of it, international education faces a major crisis. This volume, with contributors from Austria, Chile, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States, sets forth a timely and provocative critique of international education and assesses its future under radically different conditions than those in place twenty years ago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	1	(4)
An Introduction
International Understanding and Global Interdependence: Towards a Critique of International Education	5	(20)
Walter Grunzweig
Nana Rinehart
Cultural Difference and Globalization
Neither International Nor Educative: Study Abroad in the Time of Globalization	25	(16)
John Engle
Lilli Engle
U.S. Students Abroad: Host Culture Integration or Third Culture Formation?	41	(16)
James L. Citron
Learning about the Future World: International Education and the Demise of the Nation State	57	(18)
William W. Hoffa
The Meanings of International Education
Utilitarian or Idealist? Frameworks for Assessing the Study Abroad Experience	75	(10)
Nana Rinehart
Beyond the Lapiths and the Centaurs: Cross-Cultural ``Deepening'' Through Study Abroad	85	(20)
Skye Stephenson
The Rockies in Poland: International Education as Frontier Experience	105	(14)
Walter Grunzweig
The Cultures of International Education
Every Engineer a Nomad? International Education as a Challenge to the Profession	119	(8)
Sabine Klahr
Information and Communication Technologies in Internationalized Business Education: Technical Opportunities and Interpersonal Threats	127	(20)
Hartmut H. Holzmuller
Barbara Stottinger
Thomas Wittkop
Thi's Story: Growing Up in the Mekong Delta and Studying Abroad: A Reflection on International Education and Development Cooperation	147	(18)
Hanneke Teekens
Outlook
In Search of a Comprehensive Approach to International Education: A Systems Perspective	165	(50)
Josef A. Mestenhauser
Contributors	215