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  • Faculty-Led Study Abroad as Social Justice Praxis: A Phenomenological Case Study

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    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....
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    Dissertation
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    , Anuncia Escala, Bradley Boovy, Daniel López- Cevallos, David Bernell, Dwaine Plaza, Joan Gross, Kelly

  • Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

    Creator:
    Barbour, Nancy Staton
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    This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    deal, and there is little evidence of a political imperative to defend the rights currently enjoyed