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The Translocal Urban Nexus in International Education


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In his article in IIE’s newly released IIENetworker magazine, author Xiangming Chen explains how globalization can enable universities to generate new learning opportunities by capitalizing on the many knowledge assets of distinct localities abroad. He illustrates this "translocal" model by sharing a recent Urban and Global Studies program at Trinity College, which compared manufacturing industries in Shanghai, China, and East Hartford, CT. "Students developed a concrete understanding of the broad features of globalization, where one company’s global restructuring weaves together vastly different and geographically distant places," writes Chen.

 

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