Wayland, K. A. (2015, June), From Reverse Culture Shock to Global Competency: Helping Education Abroad Students Learn from the Shock of the Return Home  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24142

\bibitem{asee_peer_24142}
  Wayland, K. A. (2015, June), \emph{From Reverse Culture Shock to Global Competency: Helping Education Abroad Students Learn from the Shock of the Return Home}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24142

Kent A. Wayland.  "From Reverse Culture Shock to Global Competency: Helping Education Abroad Students Learn from the Shock of the Return Home".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24142 Internet.  02 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24142}
  Kent A. Wayland.
  "From Reverse Culture Shock to Global Competency: Helping Education Abroad Students Learn from the Shock of the Return Home".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24142 Internet.  02 Dec, 2024

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AB  -   Steps Toward a “Wrap-Around” Approach for International ExperiencesInternational Division — Possible Session Topics:    • Comparison and Assessment of Various Study Abroad Models in Achieving Global       Competencies    • Integration of International Programs in the Engineering Curriculum (year long,       semester, short-term/study abroad, co-op, and service learning)    • Experiential and Project-based Learning in Engineering Programs OverseasDowney and others have defined the globally competent engineer as one who can understandhow engineers from other cultural locations define problems differently and who can work withthose engineers to solve those problems. On-campus courses can help students begin tounderstand these differing perspectives, but having a rich experience in another culturalenvironment can lead to much more profound learning. Yet simply going to another place is notsufficient. One can travel to Spain or Mexico or South Africa and not have one’s frame ofreference much challenged. Engineering educators therefore must focus on the quality of studentlearning even as they work to increase the quantity of students having international experiences.One way to improve student learning is to offer a “wrap-around” approach to internationalexperiences. In this approach students have coursework before departing to prepare them to beopen to other points of view; small assignments, journal prompts, or exercises during their timeabroad; and then an intensive course upon their return to help them to reflect on and process theirexperience so that they can integrate it into a new way of understanding the world. This approachuses an anthropological perspective to explore entrance into another culture, and it draws onDewey’s argument that experiential learning requires reflection, as well as building on morerecent scholarship on transformative learning. At present, a wrap-around approach has not beenfully embraced by any engineering program, though a number of schools, explored here, offersome pieces of this approach. In particular, a few programs at [author’s institution] have adoptedthis approach, but have not fully institutionalized it. This paper explores the potential benefits ofthe wrap-around approach and suggests ways in which it might be integrated into curricula toenable the graduation of more globally competent engineers.
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