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Marie Helweg-Larsen; Stacey Bolton Tsantir – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
Research has examined how people think about their personal risks, but not how students conceptualize the risks they experience abroad. We examined how students describe their risks, how they see risk beliefs and experiences as tied to mitigation, and whether they view study abroad as a time to take (positive or negative) risks. We interviewed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, Risk
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Ceo-DiFrancesco, Diane; Dunn, Leah S.; Truitt, Maggie – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2022
This study investigated pre-occupational therapy students' descriptions of dissonance during a two-week service-learning immersion program in Guatemala. Thirty-one students participated in student-led group reflections during two program iterations. Qualitative analysis of transcripts yielded three themes: context, experience, and outcome. The…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Service Learning, Study Abroad, Occupational Therapy
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Beatty, Cameron C.; Manning-Ouellette, Amber – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
Pre COVID-19 there were a growing number of opportunities for study abroad across higher education in the United States, (Rosch & Haber-Curran, 2013; Martinez, 2012). This paper aims to examine phenomena surrounding outcomes of student abroad experiences while centering students' leadership learning. Centering leadership learning as a…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Students, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Eric D. Leise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the influence institutional cultures and structures have on a university's internationalization strategy. It also accounted for the roles external forces, such as government policies and geopolitics, play in shaping internationalization strategies. The comparative case study between the United States, England, and Sweden were…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, School Culture, Strategic Planning
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Omotoyosi Oduwaye; Askin Kiraz; Yasemin Sorakin – SAGE Open, 2023
International students leave their countries to pursue their educational goals in a different country and must adapt to succeed. However, they may face challenges when adapting to and learning a new culture. This study investigates the challenges common to international students in their host countries and summarizes the publishing trends. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Barriers, Educational Trends, Sociocultural Patterns
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Míriam Jorge; Andréa Mattos; Leina Jucá; Mara Barbosa – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
This paper discusses the use of duoethnography in the internationalization of language teacher education, aiming at responding to the following questions: A) how may duoethnography support the internationalization of language teacher education? B) What aspects of language teachers' lives can be explored in dialogical encounters among language…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Study Abroad
Kenneth Han Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
My dissertation examines the marketization of higher education, drawing on empirical case studies from Taiwanese students using "education agents" to apply to U.S. colleges and universities. I argue that without these intermediary agents, applicants and parents may be left flying blindly amid uncertainties, emotional distress, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Foreign Students, Commercialization
Damian J. Wyman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Chinese students make up the largest and second largest group of internationals in U.S. and Canadian universities, yet they receive scant attention in terms of how they decide to study transnationally in North America. Most of the research on Chinese families' study abroad decision-making has been conducted with those from first tier eastern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Indochinese
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Pedersen, Eric R.; DiGuiseppi, Graham; Klein, David J.; Davis, Jordan P.; Farris, Coreen; D'Amico, Elizabeth J.; LaBrie, Joseph W.; Griffin, Beth Ann – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Research has just begun to identify American college students who study abroad as a group at-risk for sexual violence victimization. The purpose of the current study was to examine the context of these incidents. Participants: We utilized a large longitudinal sample of 2,428 United States college students studying abroad for between 4…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Victims of Crime, College Students, Study Abroad
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Tripp Strawbridge – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study utilizes social network analysis to characterize a typology of study abroad sojourner experience, detailing the relationship of social experience types to second language (L2) proficiency growth and study abroad program design. In contrast with previous research, the study performs a quantitative analysis of structural and compositional…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Experience, College Students, Second Language Learning
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Susan M. Yelich Biniecki – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative interpretive study was to explore how 43 educators from Ecuador made meaning of a nine-month international continuing professional education (CPE) program at a higher education institution in the United States. Often categorized generally as study abroad, international CPE encompasses unique modalities focusing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Education Programs, International Education
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Dana E. Tottenham; Juan C. Gonzáles; Rosa Maria Acevedo; Jennifer A. Lund; Richard J. Reddick; Victor B. Sáenz – Texas Education Review, 2024
This study considers the experience of education abroad alumni through a social justice lens. We leverage literature that places systemic change at the fore, underscoring the importance of addressing deeply ingrained attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions that perpetuate systemic inequalities or hinder progress. Practitioners and scholars have…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Ambiguity (Context), Career Change, Alumni
Paolo Bartolini – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative case study research was to explore the multifaceted motivations, perceptions and attitudes that influence digital literacy practices in a small group of study abroad faculty and how professional development can help inspire them to act to innovate their digital literacy practices within a study abroad context. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technological Literacy, Study Abroad, Faculty Development
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Winkel, Carmen; Strachan, Laura; Aamir, Siddiqua – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of Saudi Arabian university students returning home after having spent time away studying internationally. The investigation focused exclusively on female students who for diverse reasons were unable to complete their studies abroad. Design/methodology/approach: A thematic analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Study Abroad, Cultural Differences
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Pipitone, Jennifer M.; Raghavan, Chitra – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
The exotic aura surrounding Bali was embraced as a teaching and learning opportunity in the four-week, faculty-led study abroad programme at the centre of the present inquiry, which asked: how might a place-based pedagogical intervention shape student experiences of an exotified cultural environment? Grounded within sociocultural psychology and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Place Based Education, Experiential Learning
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