Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
How is Overseas Summer Camp? The Perspectives of Chinese Adolescents and Their Parents
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies hosts a talk with Joy Huang on the perspectives of Chinese adolescents who participate in overseas study tours and their parents.
When:
February 19, 2016 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Joy (Zhuowei) Huang, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
Traveling abroad for short-term educational and leisure programs, referring to "overseas study tour" in this study, has become popular amonth Chinese adolescents in recent years, particularly high school students (14-18 years old). This research examines the overseas study tour from the perspetive of Chinese adolescents and their parents. Three primary types of activities were identified in overseas study tour. Chinese adolescents perceived benefits and values of overseas study tour were uncovered. In addition, their parents' perspectives of sending kids to overseas study tour were discussed in this research.
BIO
Dr. Joy (Zhuowei) Huang is an Assistant Professor at Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in consumer behavior in travel and tourism area, with the focus on social-psychological accounts of tourists. Dr. Huang is particularly interested in Chinese tourist behavior, which she believes is a reflector of the transitioning society in China.
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