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Embracing Authenticity in Global Contexts: A Constructivist Approach

Explore the contrasting realms of expectation versus reality in global experiences. Discover themes of liberation, complexity, and embracing contradictions. Learn to reflect and make meaning through past, present, and future perspectives. Gain insights on effective reflection processes, empathic listening, and real-world connections. Unveil case studies, recommendations, and the influence of service-learning on study abroad.

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Embracing Authenticity in Global Contexts: A Constructivist Approach

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  1. AAC&U Global Learning in College Oct. 10, 2015 Steve Grande, Bethany Zaiman - Mary Baldwin College A. Renee Staton – James Madison University Embracing the contrast between the expected and the real: Seeking authenticity in global contexts.Part II

  2. Themes • Liberation • Experience without expectations • Seeking a singular experience • Move towards greater complexity • Preference for hierarchies • Recognition of difference, within boundaries • Embracing contradictions

  3. Who Are We?

  4. Our Task • Help develop a reflection process intentionally designed to facilitate complex meaning making

  5. Our Foundation Constructivism: Creating individually-relevant, catalytic meaning Relying on • Past • Present • Future

  6. Case Studies Identify: • What worked well • What did not work well • What could make the situation better

  7. Recommendations

  8. One Framework: • Past – Pre-Reflection • Self-Awareness* • Bi-Directional Empathic Listening • Present – Reflection • Empathic Listening • Challenge and Support • Future – Post-Experience • Self-Awareness, again • Real World Connections

  9. Recommendations Expectation responsibility

  10. Recommendations Constructivism

  11. Recommendations Service-Learning influence on Study Abroad and vice versa

  12. Recommendations Expectation responsibility Constructivism Service-Learning influence on Study Abroad and vice versa

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