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Service-Learning Study-Abroad and Europe's Migration Crisis -- A Case Study
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Hirschauer, Sabine; Karp, Regina; Kekeh, Michele; Akpinar-Elci, Muge – Intercultural Education, 2021
The present article analyzes the service-learning experiences of US students during a short-term study-abroad trip to Germany in July 2017. The study identified a key, overarching challenge: the gap between students' expectations and the actual study-abroad outcome. The overall service-learning study-abroad experience was deemed very positive for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Case Studies, Study Abroad, Teaching Methods
Teaching Latinx Traditional Medicine "Curanderismo" in Higher Education
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Eliseo Torres; Mario Del Angel-Guevara – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
For more than 20 years, traditional medicine of Mexico, the U.S. Southwest and other countries has been taught as a series of academic course at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in the United States. These courses focus on traditional uses of healing plants and rituals for students in higher education and the community. These courses…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Culture, Medicine, Program Descriptions, Hispanic American Students
Migration and Integration in Germany -- A Multi- and Transcultural, Critical Experiential Learning Approach toward 21st Century Global Civic Skills
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Hirschauer, Sabine; Karp, Regina; Kekeh, Michele; Akpinar-Elci, Muge – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2019
This two-year quantitative study analyzes students' experiences during migration experiential learning study-abroad programs in 2017 and 2018 in Munich, Germany. U.S. students worked with German refugee organizations to gain a more comprehensive understanding about the political, social, and cultural complexity of Europe's current migration…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Integration, Refugees, Study Abroad
The Effect of an Experiential, Adventure-Based "Anti-Bullying Initiative" on Levels of Resilience: A Mixed Methods Study
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Beightol, Jesse; Jevertson, Jenn; Gray, Sky; Carter, Susan; Gass, Michael – Journal of Experiential Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of an experiential, adventure-based "Anti-Bullying Initiative" on levels of resilience. The goal of this initiative was to create a more positive, caring, and safe learning environment for all students at a local elementary school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Activities were designed to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Environment, Experiential Learning, Adventure Education
Southwestern Sojourn.
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Horwood, Bert – Journal of Experiential Education, 1983
Discusses the common characteristics of experiential education programs and administration in public and private elementary, secondary, and alternative high schools in Colorado and New Mexico. Also discusses the attributes of an effective outdoor education leader and how those attributes are acquired, based on interviews with Southwestern outdoor…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Leadership Qualities
Educating Native Students: Inspiring Future Leaders.
Lee, Tiffany – Winds of Change, 2003
A 7-week summer program for college-bound American Indian students prepares them for college and trains them to become leaders. Through role playing a fictitious Native tribe, students encounter realistic dilemmas similar to those facing tribal governments and realize that tribal leaders' decisions involve many social and political issues…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Students, American Indian Studies, College Bound Students