Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

Best Practice in Community-Engaged Learning in Education Abroad

Download the July 2020 Report By Karen McBride, EdD, and Melissa Whatley, PhD “Learning is community based, applied, reflective, connected, visceral, integrated and engaged; it is locally contextualized, historically informed and theoretically grounded” (Hartman et al. 2018, 4). Community-engaged

Intercultural Communication in Practice

November 14 - 15, 2024 | 2:00 pm

International educators (are expected to) provide intercultural guidance to students going abroad and incoming international students, as well as to other constituents on an increasingly diverse campus. How we navigate these intercultural experiences can impact cultural adjustment and inclusion

Classroom and Virtual Meeting Room: Teaching and Learning Success

In this NAFSA e-Learning Seminar, we will explore how to effectively deliver engaging content online, how to employ learning reinforcement methodologies to ensure transfer of knowledge and participant engagement, and how IE professionals can apply model practices to program design and delivery.

Research Symposium - November 2020

Join NAFSA and colleagues in recognizing international education research at the next Research Symposium - A Critical Discussion of Theories, Methodologies, and Practices in International Education, December 2020

Programming Design for International Educators

Campus and community programming has been used to orient new students, retain existing students, educate stakeholders, build community, improve intercultural communication, and so on. However, in an atmosphere that focuses on compliance, it is often relegated to the back burner and rarely takes

Swiss Student Mobility Beyond Europe

By Gordon Millar, Barbara Stettler, and Xaver Büeler Until recently, Swiss universities have focused on European student mobility. The European Union’s non-EU member status has allowed Swiss universities to participate in EU educational exchange and international project-funding programs during two

Global Studies Literature Review—No. 10, February 2020

Welcome to the 10th anniversary issue of NAFSA’s Global Studies Literature Review ( GSLR). This issue of the GSLR explores the historical context of many themes important to international education, while simultaneously embracing how scholar practitioners (and practitioner scholars) are building the

Learning from Critique: How Critical Education Abroad Should Alter the Agenda

Over the last decade, scholar-practitioners in the area of global service-learning have done a great deal to embrace a more critical, reflective, and ethical approach to global learning and community engagement. While reading Eric Hartman, Richard C. Kiely, Christopher Boettcher, and Jessica

International Education Graduate Programs Database

As the field of international higher education grows, more higher education institutions are offering graduate programs in international education (IE). The International Education Graduate Programs Database is a compilation of IE graduate, post-graduate, and certificate programs, as well as

Knowledge Diplomacy: An Approach to Addressing Global Issues

Examining the role of international higher education and research in building relations between countries is not new. Traditionally, it has been done through a cultural, scientific, or public diplomacy lens and more recently a soft power approach. This article presents a new perspective by using a