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Study Abroad as a High-Impact Educational Practice: US-China Exchanges and the Kean-Wenzhou Kean University Experience
Abstract
Cultivating students who demonstrate cross-cultural understanding, cooperation in multicultural environments, and social responsibility has become an important mission for higher education. Various models of study abroad have emerged as the major pathways for fostering global learning in recent decades, as students in these programs tend to gain immersive experiences in a different cultural context. This chapter synthesizes the current understanding of study abroad programs as high-impact educational practices and aims to examine the evolution of global learning objectives, especially the shift in focus from international mobility to the cultivation of students' global awareness and intercultural competence; to analyze the mechanism through which study abroad functions as a high-impact educational practice; to evaluate the strengths and limitations of different study abroad models in supporting students' holistic development; and to discuss the opportunities and challenges of an applied case of global learning through the partnership between Kean and Wenzhou-Kean University.
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