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Tiêu đề
Crossing the ocean: Identity, teaching, and research challenges for an European scholar in U.S. universities
Tác giả
Balas A.
Năm xuất bản
2015
Source title
Online Journal Modelling the New Europe
Số trích dẫn
1
DOI
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Crossing the Ocean to 'play' in the 'first' academic league in the world can have a powerful impact on a foreign academic's personal identity, teaching styles and approaches, writing in a non-native language, and ability to conduct research on topics that are not directly linked to ethnic/national background. In this paper I explore some of these issues from three personal perspectives: that of a Romanian undergraduate student who studied abroad for one year in the U.S.; that of a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and finally, that of a professor of inter-disciplinary International Studies at a small liberal arts college in rural New York State. The paper will also tackle identity shifts as well as teaching and research challenges as an international scholar in U.S. universities. These are merely my reflections about a Romanian scholar's (self)-discovery journey through U.S. academia.
Từ khóa
Academic life/ work balance; Identity; International teaching; Promotion/tenure in American higher education; U.S. university research
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Nơi xuất bản
Faculty of European Studies
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Open Access
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Scopus