Learner subjects in study abroad

Discourse of Immersion, Hierarchy of Experience and Their Subversion Through Situated Learning

Bibliographic Data

ID2937477
AuthorsNeriko Musha Doerr (0000-0002-1931-9236, Ramapo College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume36
Issue3
Pages369-382
Publication date2015-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2013.871448
OpenAlexW1971893032
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited22

This article investigates different kinds of learner subjects that study-abroad programs produce. It is based on discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork in May–September 2011, involving three students from a US college studying abroad short term in Europe. The discourse of immersion in study abroad valorizes a learning-by-doing, individual, reflective learner subject who learns alone by gaining everyday experience outside the classroom and by reflecting on it. Some students subverted this discourse and became group and classroom-based learner subjects; nonetheless, they all became reflective learner subjects. This article proposes critical analysis of the discourse and links that reflectivity to critical pedagogy

Discourse analysis · Ethnography · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Situated · Sociology · Study abroad · Subversion · Computer Science · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology

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