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"Cultural Responsiveness": A Framework for Re-Thinking Students' Interculturality through Study Abroad
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Giovanangeli, Angela; Oguro, Susan – Intercultural Education, 2016
While intercultural competence is commonly a goal of university study abroad programmes, debates around criteria for assessing this competence have highlighted the challenges in appropriately identifying students' intercultural learning in relation to specific university programmes. To overcome these issues, this research moves beyond…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Programs, Questionnaires, Interviews
Developing Intercultural Understanding for Study Abroad: Students' and Teachers' Perspectives on Pre-Departure Intercultural Learning
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Holmes, P.; Bavieri, L.; Ganassin, S. – Intercultural Education, 2015
This study reports on students' and teachers' perspectives on a programme designed to develop Erasmus students' intercultural understanding prior to going abroad. We aimed to understand how students and their teachers perceived pre-departure materials in promoting their awareness of key concepts related to interculturality (e.g., essentialism,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Enhancing the Intercultural Effectiveness of Exchange Programmes: Formal and Non-Formal Educational Interventions
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Almeida, Joana; Fantini, Alvino E.; Simões, Ana Raquel; Costa, Nilza – Intercultural Education, 2016
This paper examines how the addition of intercultural interventions carried out throughout European credit-bearing exchange programmes can enhance sojourners' development of intercultural competencies, and it explores how both formal and non-formal pedagogical interventions may be designed and implemented. Such interventions were conducted at a…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Exchange Programs, Cultural Awareness, Intervention
"Egypt in Transition": Uniting Service-Learning and Short-Term Study-Abroad
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McMullen, Mike; Penn, Everette B. – Intercultural Education, 2011
Study-abroad has become a popular method for promoting international education in university curricula. Yet, with today's growing non-traditional student who is older, working, and increasingly a member of a racial/ethnic minority group, traditional study-abroad programmes of a semester or year abroad have become more problematic, if not…
Descriptors: International Education, Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Study Abroad for Global Engagement: The Long-Term Impact of Mobility Experiences
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Paige, R. Michael; Fry, Gerald W.; Stallman, Elizabeth M.; Josic, Jasmina; Jon, Jae-Eun – Intercultural Education, 2009
This paper reports on the preliminary results of a research project "'Beyond immediate impact: Study abroad for global engagement' (SAGE)" which examines the long-term impact of study abroad on various forms of global engagement. The study employs a retrospective tracer study and mixed methods research design. Survey results from 6391 study-abroad…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Research Design, Methods Research, Discussion Groups
Intercultural Learning on Short-Term Sojourns
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Jackson, Jane – Intercultural Education, 2009
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after 14 weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Ethnography