International Education or Colonial Tourism? Measuring Tools and Standards for Evaluating International Education

Autor/in	Lempert, David
Titel	International Education or Colonial Tourism? Measuring Tools and Standards for Evaluating International Education
Quelle	In: Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34 (2022) 4, S.357-400 (44 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4568
Schlagwörter	International Education; Tourism; Developing Nations; Colonialism; International Law; Study Abroad; Professionalism; Compliance (Legal); Check Lists; Standards; Intellectual Development; Program Improvement; Educational Indicators; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Tourismus; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Kolonialismus; Law of nations; Völkerrecht; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Professionalität; Checkliste; Standard; Mental development; Geistige Entwicklung; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This article applies a recently published indicator to various types of international education projects to measure their compliance with educational professionalism and international development law and also compares this indicator with the standards checklist currently in use by The Forum on Education Abroad. The tests and comparisons suggest that no existing standards hold international education to any real scrutiny, allowing many programs: 1) to degenerate into the equivalent of for-profit travel programs with little real educational content or intellectual challenge to students and 2) to promote colonialism rather than equity and development meeting international legal standards. The author shows how indicators can be extended to improve education abroad programs assessment on dimensions of professionalism and appropriate impact on developing countries under international law and also points to some of the many niches or gaps in education abroad that remain to be filled. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01