Consider submitting a proposal for a poster presentation (11:15 - 12:00 p.m.) at the 2015 Appalachian Global Symposium planned for November 18, 2015.
This is an opportunity to share research, teaching practices, and other aspects of Global Learning with colleagues across campus.
Another approach for those who have studied or taught study abroad classes: You might want to consider focusing on your academic, or cultural or personal experience abroad. For example...
- What struck you about the teaching methods or student learning styles abroad? What did you appreciate about them, or find challenging? How did you come to put those differences into the larger context of the host culture?
- What did you learn in your classes (or a specific class) abroad that made the subject stand out in a different light, that gave you an additional insight, that you now see from a different perspective?
- In your life outside of the classroom, what did you learn about (pick one) family life, gender relations, politics, attitudes toward the environment, social class, consumer behavior, religion, etc. What did your observations suggest to you about your host culture?
- In what ways did your expectations, your pre-conceptions, not match or were even shattered by the reality of your host culture? What did you learn about the culture as a result of this experience? What did you learn about the way your expectations or pre-conceptions were formed in the first place?
- What is it that you feel you can do now (intellectually, socially, personally) that you don't think you could have done before you studied abroad? How do you think that competency came about?
- What did you learn about yourself --- your identity, your nationality, your worldview, your deeply held ideas --- that you don't think you would know if you hadn't studied abroad?
Please send your proposal (100 words or less) to globalsymposium@appstate.edu no later than 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday October 13!