Learning tours to build understanding

Mennonite Weekly Review’s article MCC visitors, Iranian partners build understanding highlights a recent learning tour between North America and Iran at a critical time for building cross-cultural understanding and relationships. In the language classroom, this type of learning and relationship-building goes even further as learners interact and work together over a longer period of time and share the challenge of learning a new language as well as each others’ cultures and worldviews. Could the language classroom be considered an extended “learning tour”?