Student Learning Abroad: What Our Students Are Learning, What They’re Not, and What We Can Do About It

in Study Abroad
April 20th, 2015

The forthcoming book, Student Learning Abroad: What Students Are Learning, What They Are Not, and What We Can Do About It, addresses this ongoing shift. The book’s editors, Michael Vande Berg, R. Michael Paige, and Kris Hemming Lou, offer a framework that describes ongoing paradigmatic shifts in our thinking about student learning abroad. The book’s authors review recent research assessing student learning and development abroad; discuss insights from a wide range of disciplines—psychology, education, anthropology, experiential learning theory, developmental theory, intercultural relations, and neuroscience—that together converge around the emerging experiential-constructivist view of human learning; and describe six exemplar study abroad programs that, grounded in this emerging view, are helping students learn and develop in ways that educators have long hoped that they will.