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Luxton, India; Valdes-Vasquez, Rodolfo; Ozbek, Mehmet Egemen; Thornes, Laura – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This study examines a short-term study abroad program in Costa Rica. The goals of the study are to (1) investigate the link between high impact learning practices (HIPs) and program learning outcomes and (2) capture the relation between program structure, program facilitation, and student learning networks. The methodology includes ethnographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Correlation, Educational Practices
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Prevratilova, Silvie – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
A cohort of American students came to Prague for their Study Abroad in spring 2020. They signed up for a Czech language course but had to leave the country in the middle of the term and continue learning from homes. At the end of the term, they were asked to write a short reflective essay on how their motivation to learn Czech transformed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Slavic Languages, Second Language Learning
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Woodman, Taylor C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
Internationalization continues to remain a central focus within the U.S. university environment. The motives of internationalization are under question as neoliberal policies continue to limit sustained, long-term state funding for universities and undermine the academic mission of universities. Universities are leveraging internationalization…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Universities, Global Approach
Hillman, Nick; Huxley, Tom – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2019
It is often said that the number of current world leaders who chose to be educated in another country can serve as a useful, though rough and incomplete, indicator of "soft power." So, since 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has been publishing desk research on the tertiary education of serving heads of state and heads…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Presidents, Leadership
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Wan, Guofang; Sharma, Rashmi; Walker, Aneta; Habib, Amany – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2023
The ever-increasing interconnectedness of the world and the diversity in demographics call for the training of global awareness and cultural competence among leaders and educators. This study, using qualitative methods, examined how 19 participants and their mentors from a United States university perceived a six-week long immersive global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Practicums, International Educational Exchange, Cultural Awareness
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Huang, Iona Yuelu; Williamson, David; Lynch-Wood, Gary; Raimo, Vincenzo; Rayner, Charlotte; Addington, Lindsay; West, Eddie – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
There is an increasing reliance on international education agents for student recruitment in Higher Education (HE), but the governance of education agents is under-researched. This study explores contractual governance approaches adopted by HE institutions for managing international education agents in the United States, United Kingdom and…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, International Education, Classification
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Jie Fang; Fong Peng Chew; Mohd Shahril Nizam Shaharom – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2024
Although Chinese has become one of the most influential second/foreign languages in the world, teaching Chinese as a foreign/second language (CSL/CFL) abroad faces great challenges. M-learning and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) display great advantages to facilitate second language learning, including CSL/CFL. However, most research was…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Study Abroad, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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McBride, Amy E.; Bellamy, Davies E.; Knoester, Matthew – Theory Into Practice, 2020
This article describes the theory and practice of three education courses focusing on critical multicultural education. Two versions of the course take place on the campus of a small liberal arts university in the Midwest region of the United States and the other is based at the same university but operates as a study abroad course in Trinidad and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teachers, Study Abroad
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Biaz Dea Nabilla – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
Motivation is a foremost aspect in language learning and has been extensively studied in the field of SLA due to its important contribution to pedagogical implications. However, SLA scholars/researchers have overwhelmingly preoccupied specifically with Asian students such as Japanese and/or Chinese (Gong et al, 2020; Kikuchi, 2019). This ignores…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marjean Carrie McLaughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored the experiences of 16 undergraduate students across four cohorts who chose to begin college by participating in a first-year experience program abroad in London, England. Through the use of individual interviews and participant observation, this study sought to understand what influenced students' decision making to…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Community, Study Abroad, Student Experience
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Park, Juyeon – Gender and Education, 2023
Using interviews with 74 Korean undergraduate students at ten elite U.S. colleges, I explore how intersections of gender and class decide who pursues transnational mobility and cosmopolitan life more successfully. Men from highly-transnational families tried to exert 'agency for becoming' while mapping out their 'choice biographies', aspiring and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Eleweke, C. Jonah – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2022
Evidence indicates that some Africans, with or without special needs or disabilities highly target attending U.S. colleges and universities for further education. Typically, most of these people had obtained their bachelor's degrees in institutions of higher education in their countries. The desire to travel to U.S. for graduate studies could be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Students with Disabilities
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Iskhakova, Marina; Bradly, Andrew; Whiting, Bronwen; Lu, Vinh N. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is critical to students' academic and career success. Drawing on experiential learning theory, the current study investigates the extent to which students' prior international experience and short-term study abroad destinations foster the development of their CQ. We examined the learning of 121 undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intelligence, Study Abroad, International Education
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Brandon, Regina R.; Marsh, Robbie J.; Cumming, Therese M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
There is a call for today's teachers to be globally literate as their student populations become more diverse. Immersive experiences in other countries with international colleagues and students can support the development of global literacy and culturally responsive practice. Preservice special education teachers do not often have opportunities…
Descriptors: Special Education, Teacher Education Programs, Special Education Teachers, International Cooperation
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Liz Zheng; Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow; Stanley Zhiwei Lin; Yifei Yang – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This study presents evidence of the impact of an innovative pedagogical practice that cultivates and develops the intercultural competence of undergraduate college students. 15 U.S. undergraduate students enrolled in a business study abroad course and 12 Chinese undergraduate students participated in a virtual student exchange project in spring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad
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