ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to 'a temporary sojourn of pre-defined duration, undertaken for educational purposes'. Engaging in study abroad has been shown by research to result in students' personal development, expressed as increased self-confidence, self-reliance, and openness, along with intercultural learning including deeper understanding of their own culture and identity, greater awareness and acceptance of cultural differences, and increased intercultural communication skills. As graduates, their study abroad experiences have the potential to open diverse career pathways at home and abroad and contribute to their working effectively in international and intercultural contexts. The chapter outlines the implementation of the Global Networking Intercultural Capabilities (GNIC) intercultural pre-departure workshops as the first stage of developing an intercultural learning pathway for study abroad students within a large urban Australian university. It finally examines how the GNIC programme is seeking to achieve the goal through enacting a critically informed dialogic pedagogy promoting peer learning for both students and facilitators in the higher education context.
