Troubling Paradise: Exploring The Experiences of National Student Exchange Participants to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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2023

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This interdisciplinary, qualitative study applies a critical lens to the field of education abroad, advocates for a more expansive and inclusive view of student mobility, and centers Hawaiʻi as a destination of choice for increasingly mobile students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen students from the continental U.S. who participated in National Student Exchange (NSE) to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). The research questions guiding this study focused on the ways in which the specificity of place, namely Hawaiʻi, shaped the assumptions and expectations of NSE students on exchange to UHM and informed their perceptions and experiences while here. The findings suggest ways in which exchanges, particularly to Hawaiʻi, can be more responsible, respectful, and reciprocal. As such, this research endeavors to contribute to the ongoing efforts at decolonization, both in the field of student mobility and in Hawaiʻi.

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Education, Higher education, Hawaiʻi, student exchange, student mobility, study away

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252 pages

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