To be transformed: emotions in cross-cultural, field-based learning in Northern Australia

Title: To be transformed: emotions in cross-cultural, field-based learning in Northern Australia
Creator: Wright, Sarah; Hodge, Paul
Relation: Journal of Geography in Higher Education Vol. 36, Issue 3, p. 355-368
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2011.638708
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Students undertaking field-based learning, in which they work with Indigenous people in Northern Australia, describe a profound learning experience redolent with emotion. Inspired, challenged and transformed, the students are compelled in ways that require them to interrogate their own selves and taken-for-granted beliefs. In this paper, we draw on empirical work with undergraduate students in geography and development studies to investigate what these cross-cultural experiences add to experiential learning models and recent work on emotional geographies. We find that an understanding of the sensory and emotive is imperative if we are to encourage students to build understanding across difference and connect with diverse people, places and experiences in fundamentally new ways.
Subject: emotional geographies; cross-cultural education; student fieldwork; Indigenous people; affect; experiential learning theory
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054474
Identifier: uon:15756
Identifier: ISSN:0309-8265
Language: eng
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