STUDY ABROAD POEM: Some contrasting attitudes towards overseas education I want to study abroad: the shopping is great! I want to venture overseas: later may be too late! I want to head to foreign lands for adventure, romance, and fun Take me across the ocean to tropical beaches, warm waters, and sun! Help me get away from here: a holiday for credit sounds cool! I yearn to be “international” - not jes’ a monolingual fool So many different students So many different goals Reflecting on this ask yourself when studying abroad what will you aspire for? what will be your roles? Satoru: For some, study abroad is merely a vacation . . . . Tim: And for others, it is the most significant experience of their school lives. Melissa: So how can study abroad become an educationally valid experience? Liao: (shaking his head while laughing) It is not like an industrial product! There is no exact formula. Although empirical research does offer guidelines, ultimately we need intuition and a degree of guesswork. ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A poem and conversation about overseas study and image of students entering a mysterious gate. KEYWORDS: international education, educational commodification, study abroad outcomes, overseas education objective Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2015 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/prolog.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/edusales.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL https://www.tnewfields.info/es/estudiar.htm NIHONGO https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/ryuugaku.htm ZHŌNGWÉN https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/liuxue.htm