Rebecca Hovey is currently developing World Learning Global Dialogues, a new initiative to explore critical global issues through educational travel. She previously served as Dean of SIT Study Abroad from 2001 - 2008, overseeing international education programming for over 2,000 students per year in over 45 countries. She recently completed a one year position as the World Learning Engaged Global Scholar, working to document and extend World Learning's experiential, community-based pedagogy. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in the field of City and Regional Planning with an emphasis on International Development Studies in Planning. Her academic work focuses on internationalization of higher education, global citizenship and critical pedagogy.
Articles
Global Learning through Partnered Inquiry, Association of International Administration Educators, Contemporary Issues (2009)
The emergence of Global Learning associated with the internationalization U.S. higher education signals a convergence...
Critical Pedagogy and International Studies: Reconstructing Knowledge through Dialogue with the Subaltern, International Relations (2004)
The emerging trend and pressure for higher education to internationalize the curriculum, meet the challenges...
Contributions to Books
Global Learning and the Making of Citizen Diplomats (with Adam Weinberg), The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship (2009)
This chapter addresses the need for study abroad programs that prepare students for moral responsibility...
Whole World Study (with J. L. Buschman, G. S. Khalsa, R M. de Brito Meyer, M. D. Monahan, and J. A. Raducha), NAFSA's Guide to Education Abroad for Advisors and Administrators (2005)
Study Abroad in nontraditional locations is a growing trend in international education. This chapter in...
Presentations
Institutional and International Community Development: World Learning/SIT Case Study, New York Campus Compact and Cornell University 2nd Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning (2009)
In this workshop we posed the question: How to engage with/build partnerships or solidarity with...
The Ethnographic Experience: Experiential Learning via Ethnographic Practice, Forum on Education Abroad (2009)
Ethnography and experiential learning share assumptions on the primacy of everyday lived experience for learning...
International Perspectives on International Studies (2008)
This paper aims to address the principle question asked at the 2008 conference of the...
Study Abroad, Global Knowledge and the Epistemic Communities of Higher Education, International Studies Association Conference (2005)
International education and study abroad change the boundaries of who is included in the community...