India-USA Glocally Mobile Connect-Exchange Program

Real solutions for international problems in the world come from glocal communication approaches; that is, from an understanding of local cultural practice examined through intercultural exchange, through reciprocal teaching and learning, and through global application. However, insurmountable obstacles continue to prevent educational systems around the world from creating sustainable connections and exchanges that prepare students for such knowledge work. For instance, students in India whose families earn less than an average $2000 US per year simply cannot afford to study abroad in traditional ways without increasingly rare scholarships, yet studying abroad is a proven effective way to try on another culture's ideas for size, to see through their eyes. The traditional study abroad model requires students and faculty to plan and prepare to leave all of their obligations and families behind for 3 to 4 months, and then much time on location is spent maintaining obligations at home and adjusting to cultural differences.

The challenge: to create a sustainable model of student and faculty exchange between countries that affords more students opportunity for intercultural communication and glocal thinking.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• CUK
• TTU
• Study
• abroad