Cuba Study Abroad: A Pedagogical Tool for Reconstructing American National Identity
Cuba Study Abroad: A Pedagogical Tool for Reconstructing American National Identity
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古巴出国留学：重建美国国家认同的教学工具
DOI：
10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00478.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Lee Rogers
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作者：
Lee Rogers
为了实现课程国际化和为21世纪及以后的学生做好准备的目标，学校已经开展了无数的出国留学项目。这些课程与许多学校的使命保持一致，旨在让学生拥有更重要的全球意识。虽然留学项目被推广为自我身份发现的工具，通过它，学生可以构建新的国家身份，超越国界，本文基于对查尔斯顿大学学生谁在2007年春季和2009年学期在古巴留学进行了访谈，探讨留学经验和身份形成之间的关系。我们认为，这些遭遇不仅让学生询问它意味着什么是“美国人”超越美国的情感，身体和智力界限，而且他们以前的自我和国家的概念可以加强，而不是矛盾，全球范围内。
In an attempt to meet the goal of internationalizing the curriculum and equipping students for the twenty-first century and beyond, schools have engaged themselves in a myriad of study abroad programs. These programs, in keeping with many of these schools' missions, are intended to encircle students with a more critical global awareness. While study abroad programs are promoted as self-identity discovery tools, through which students can construct new national identities that transcend national borders, this paper, based on interviews conducted with College of Charleston students who studied in Cuba during spring 2007 and 2009 semesters, explores the relationship between the study abroad experience and identity formation. We argue that these encounters not only allow students to interrogate what it means to “be American” beyond the emotional, physical, and intellectual bounds of the United States, but also how their previous conceptions of self and nation can strengthen, not contradict, a global context.