All rights reserved. It also means expanding our support for our members and the field at large to help them reach their goals of diversity and inclusion among the students they serve. Standards Institute: Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety, Security and Risk Management, © Copyright 2020 WYSE Travel Confederation. We hear about so many of them in our conversations with members! More interestingly, we are increasingly hearing calls from professionals in the field and from the students who participate in their programs that our field needs to think deeply about issues of ethical engagement with all members of the communities our students travel to and study in, that education abroad needs to move towards decolonising aspects of international education in the ways that academic fields such as anthropology have been doing in recent years. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. We're a proud member of the Forum on Education Abroad, a forum dedicated to bringing good practices for study abroad to all corners of the world. �4�Et2�M 7K��6�I؋ԗ
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I’m really looking forward to seeing how our field adjusts and self-improves in response and to doing my part to contribute to the process. It’s not about competition for us. Along with this comes the rise of what some might consider non-traditional education abroad programs, including programs that do not necessarily carry academic credit, such as internships, community-based global learning, teams traveling for sports tournaments, music ensembles going on tours overseas, etc.