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Interview of Mary Embry by Sara Reeves
Internationalizing R404: International Textiles and Apparel
Trade
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OVERVIEW• Motivations• Steps• Assignments• Evaluations
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INTERNATIONALIZATION COLLABORATIVE ACROSS BLOOMINGTON (ICAB)• Four-year collaboration between Indiana
University Bloomington and Ivy Tech Bloomington
• Develops faculty learning communities working towards designing global learning experiences
• Professional support on course and curriculum internationalization
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MOTIVATIONS• To improve student’s ability to adopt non-
western viewpoints• To more actively involve students in
international socio-economic issues• To explore global citizenship practices
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FIRST STEPS• Evaluate course outcomes• Backward course design• Trade from at least two perspectives
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ORIGINAL OUTCOMES1. Develop critical thinking and communication skills.
– Evaluate breadth and depth of information. Read, listen, discuss, observe
– Evaluate quality of information: primary and secondary sources; fact, theory, findings, description, opinion, hearsay.
– Analyze consistency and conflict of information: determine major points.
– Synthesize response.2. Analyze the size, scope, and components of the global textile and
apparel business.3. Understand the concept of the global economy and basic trade
regulations in effect.4. Consider conflicts and compare merits of perspectives of textile and
apparel business operations.
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INTERNATIONALIZED OUTCOMES1. Understand the global textile and apparel supply chain; compare and
contrast where apparel and textile product is made, where it is consumed, and why.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use databases, library resources, and international sources to access rich information that is specifically used to understand the global textile and apparel industry.
3. Be able to use both quantitative and qualitative descriptors that characterize a country socially, economically, and politically. Use these descriptors to make comparisons of standards of living between countries.
4. Identify and compare national, regional, and international structures that are involved in global trade in textiles and apparel.
5. Define and argue the competing views of impact that textiles and apparel manufacturing and consumption has socially and economically.
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PEDAGOGICAL STRUCTURES• a clear focus on information literacy so
students can effectively search, find and employ global sources
• conducting interviews with international students from the area of the world the student is studying
• reflective writing that contrasts and compares global perspectives
• relevant examples of people who exhibit global citizenship
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1. Understand the global textile and apparel supply chain; compare and contrast where apparel and textile product is made, where it is consumed, and why.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use databases, library resources, and international sources to access rich information that is specifically used to understand the global textile and apparel industry.
3. Be able to use both quantitative and qualitative descriptors that characterize a country socially, economically, and politically. Use these descriptors to make comparisons of standards of living between countries.
4. Identify and compare national, regional, and international structures that are involved in global trade in textiles and apparel.
5. Define and argue the competing views of impact that textiles and apparel manufacturing and consumption has socially and economically.
INFORMATION LITERACY RELEVANT COURSE OUTCOMES
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INFORMATION LITERACYINTEGRATION
Spring 2012 Spring 2013
week 3 exploratory bibliography
week 4 librarian course instruction & library assignment
week 5 annotated bibliography library assignment & revised bibliography
week 7 country statistics report library assignment + country statistics report
week 8 regional report thesis proposal & annotated bibliography + regional report
week 11 thesis proposal & review + interviews thesis outline & annotated bibliography + interviews
week 12 research consultations
week 13 rough draft
week 14 presentations & rough draft
week 15 final paper presentations
week 16 final paper
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INFORMATION LITERACYPRE/POST TESTS SPRING 2012 AND FALL 2012
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CONTEXTUAL INTERVIEWSassignment: interview someone who has lived in your country of study. Clarify and further describe the economic, political, and cultural information you have acquired.
Where students find interviewees:• international Area Study Centers• cultural student organizations, • colleagues• friends and relatives• social media
Interviews are then used to discuss in class the differences between aggregate descriptors of a country and the concerns of those who have lived in the country. Often students base their final research topic on issues uncovered in these interviews.
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CONTEXTUAL INTERVIEWSPRE/POST EVALUATIONS
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1. Understand the global textile and apparel supply chain; compare and contrast where apparel and textile product is made, where it is consumed, and why.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use databases, library resources, and international sources to access rich information that is specifically used to understand the global textile and apparel industry.
3. Be able to use both quantitative and qualitative descriptors that characterize a country socially, economically, and politically. Use these descriptors to make comparisons of standards of living between countries.
4. Identify and compare national, regional, and international structures that are involved in global trade in textiles and apparel.
5. Define and argue the competing views of impact that textiles and apparel manufacturing and consumption has socially and economically.
WORLDVIEW REFLECTIONSRELEVANT COURSE OUTCOMES
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OBJECTIVE: demonstration of an understanding of topics based on an assigned role in a developed country, then in a less industrialized country
example prompt: You are a citizen concerned about your country's standard of living and your well-being.
What are your views on: • being protective of the industry vs. adopting an export orientation?• encouraging multinationals vs. domestically owned industries?• do these views change if you are a consumer, manufacturer, or
retailer?
WORLDVIEW REFLECTIONSEXAMPLE PROMPT
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examples of internationalized reflections:
…we have the ability to produce low cost goods. It is important that trade barriers aren’t made for the purpose of restricting our capacity to export to other countries.
…when it comes to the Congo, what (does) free trade actually mean? What is really free about it?...
…I have just enough money to put food on the table…I am dependent on this job…and (the country) has not established any independent part of the supply chain….I am afraid our economy will suffer when others gain.
WORLDVIEW REFLECTIONSSTUDENT EXAMPLES
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WORLDVIEW REFLECTIONSPRE/POST EVALUATIONS
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THESIS DEVELOPMENT• Students present interviews• Re-evaluate resources• Propose thesis for critique/thesis outline
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THESIS DEVELOPMENTStudent examples
• Honduras is competitively positioned for industrial growth, the rippling effects of the political crisis of 2009 continue to further limit the nation’s opportunities for economic and social development.
• An abundance of the natural resource, oil, has drastically impaired the country of Nigeria. The country struggles to deal with the wealth, the corruption, and mismanagement of that valuable resource, and the effects are felt economically, socially, environmentally, and politically.
• Guatemala’s participation in a global economy, which promised to be an engine of development and a lift out of poverty, has left many questioning the likely effects it has on improving the lives of individuals in Guatemala. A new transnational perspective has locked the country in an exploitive relationship with its trading partners, characterized by deplorable working conditions and persistent social inequality.
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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
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RESOURCES• Internationalization Collaborative Across
Bloomington (ICAB): www.indiana.edu/~global/icab
• Prof. Embry’s ICAB Course Portfolio: go.iu.edu/7wg
• ICAB Resources: www.indiana.edu/~global/icab/resources.php
• Other Course Portfolios: www.indiana.edu/~global/icab/portfolios.php