What type of preparation do we offer students and faculty engaging in academic mobility? How do we ensure field schools and semesters abroad mean more than an international experience to add to a resume? How do we go from “going abroad” to “learning abroad”? In this session, we will discuss the work we are doing through a CICan funded project to develop diverse means of cultural introspection as a non-traditional approach to intercultural learning and competence development. We will talk about using stories, cultural autobiographies, and more hands-on approaches such as creative journaling as alternatives to euro-centric intercultural competence development approaches.

Additional Resources: 

• Toward Decolonizing International Exchange and Academic Mobility - PPT