Going Abroad

by Rob Gordon

Book Overview

Increasingly students from the affluent countries are going abroad as part of their "educational experience." Although students see these experiences as invaluable and believe that they have learned a lot, the anthropological literature suggests the opposite; that travel abroad has a greater impact on the hosts than on the visitors and that indeed travel abroad, far from leading to students becoming more open-minded or learning about the other, can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594517711
• ISBN13: 9781594517716
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.0"