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- Title
Reimagining Risk Management: Decolonizing Crisis Response Through Holistic Partnership Building in Education Abroad.
- Authors
Bryan, Daniel; Viteri, Chelsea; Murphy Hatz, Caitlin; Csoman, Kati R.; Pilaquinga, Edwin Manuel; McGrath, Emily
- Abstract
This article uses a case study approach to reimagine risk management in education abroad programming. It brings together a group of program partners to explore pre-COVID risk management decision-making during political unrest in Ecuador in 2019. Through continued dialogue and self-directed creative reflection techniques, the partners (a Dean of International Education and Study Abroad Director from a college in the United States, the Executive Director and Resident Director from the program provider, a local participant from the host community, and a student from the semester's cohort), all of whom are co-authors, overcome geographical distance and language barriers to reflect on their experiences over the entire process. Recognizing that COVID-19 changed how education abroad approaches risk management and responding to how movements for social justice are calling for diverse participation in policy decisions, the authors explore the Ecuador case study as a way to confront their biases and assumptions, as well as those projected in our field. Placing special focus on the colonizing nature of Global North to Global South partnerships, the article calls for a greater conversation of decolonizing risk management, ending with lessons learned and recommendations for enhancing partnerships to better serve students, communities, and institutions of higher education as a collective whole.
- Subjects
ECUADOR; CRISIS management; PARTNERSHIPS in education; COMMUNITIES; POLITICAL stability; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL justice
- Publication
Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022, Vol 34, Issue 3, p44
- ISSN
1085-4568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36366/frontiers.v34i3.672