EDUC 6610 Chapter 12: Week 12 reading
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Migration & mobility: week 12 reading: nadine dolby encountering an american self: study abroad and national identity (2004) Encounter with an american self is the most significant component of these students" experiences (151). Students" national identities shifted from a passive to active identification (recognition of the role of outsiders in shaping america ) 2. Students recognize, examined, and reconciled the tension between state and nation (152) More women than men participate in study abroad programs (154) National identities are profoundly invested in the mythology of space and territoriality, or inventing, drawing and policing lines that separate people from one another in a world where the nation-state is the fundamental political unit (156). Postnational states are no longer fully in control of its own national identity: while the. United states," as a political entity, controls its borders, and domestic and foreign state policy, america" as a concept is much more variable and dispersed (160).
