Transformative Journeys and Self-Discovery

📋 Course Outline

1. Travel and changing worldviews
2. Into the Wild and self-discovery
3. International travel and open-mindedness
4. Migrant Mother and forced migration
5. Americanah and identity shift

📖 1. Travel and changing worldviews

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Travel as transformation : Travel is presented as a transformative experience that reshapes identity and the way reality is perceived.
• Authentic life : Authentic life refers to a more genuine way of living that travelers search for through leaving familiar settings.
• New gaze : A new gaze is a changed way of looking at both the world and the self after moving across places and cultures.

📝 Essential Points

• The research question asks whether travel can change how we see the world.
• The documents treat travel as more than moving locations because it can alter identity and perception.
• Travel can either broaden understanding or expose harsh social realities depending on the type of journey.

💡 Memory Hook

Same places, different eyes: voluntary quests broaden; forced journeys reveal harsh truths.

📖 2. Into the Wild and self-discovery

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions