Classroom on the Road

This book explores unique and out-of-the-box faculty-led student travel, whether abroad or domestically. Contributors argue in favor of unique and innovative forms of undergraduate student travel, travel that eschews the all-too-ubiquitous pre-packaged and overpriced programs that remain prevalent.

Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world, out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism. Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be responsible and thoughtful members of the global community who seek out valuable experiences in other cultures to go beyond the standard consumption of touristy clichés. Furthermore, this book contributes to existing discourse about travel by going beyond being “just” a tourist to become a person who impacts—and is impacted by—other cultures and the commensurate politics of place. Contributors discuss issues of cultural imperialism, economic disparity, and responsible travel that can help protect unique destinations from the homogenizing effects of global capitalism, encouraging respectful and responsible travel.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Leading Student Travel: First the Hard Work and Then the Serendipity, by Irina Gendelman & Jeff Birkenstein

Chapter 1: Following Tour Buses: Teaching the Tourist Circuit, by Jana Mathews & Emily Russell

Chapter 2: Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, and Identifying the Common Good in International Travel, by Ann D. Summerall-Jabro

Chapter 3: Judging More Justly: Travel as an Encounter with the Other, by Raymond Blanton

Chapter 4: Building and Sustaining a Faculty-Led Russian-American Summer Language Exchange, by Igor Krasnov, Jamie Olson, & Karen Rosenflanz

Chapter 5: Master’s Program Summer Abroad: Enhancing the Education Experience, by Joshua Azriel & Jeannine Jones

Chapter 6: Folklore and Photography: An Economically Feasible Study Abroad Experience, by Christine Holtz & Heather Pinson

Chapter 7: Film Study Abroad: Immersive, Experiential Learning Through Social Documentary, by Robin Canfield

Chapter 8: Exploring Culture Through Prosocial Storytelling, by Gwendelyn S. Nisbett & Tracy Everbach

Chapter 9: Mapping Future Career Paths through a Middle East Study Tour, by Mat Hardy & Sally Totman

Chapter 10: Multimedia Storytelling: Using Global and Student-Centered Learning to Reproduce Travel, by Nicholas Artman & Douglas Strahler

Chapter 11: The Psychology and Literature of Cults: Interdisciplinarity, Experiential Learning, and Team-Taught Travel, by Alissa Burger & Kelli Stiles

Chapter 12: Exploring Public Culture and Memorialization as (Re)production of National and Cultural Identity, by Shana Kopaczewski & Darlene Hantzis

Chapter 13: Exploring the History of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Kingdom, by Michelle Fukuyama & Cord A. Scott

Chapter 14: War, Memory, and National Identity: Perspective Taking in Cambodia and Vietnam, by Patricia English-Schneider & Phillip Voight

Chapter 15: Close Encounters with Cities: Analyzing and Composing the Rhetoric of Urban Areas, by Kathleen M. Vandenberg

Traveling Writers’ Biographies