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Direct linkNicol, Allison A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nurses must possess culturally competencies to effectively care for patients of diverse backgrounds. The groundwork to build cultural competence in nurses should be laid in nursing school. Nursing faculty are obligated to develop and provide appropriate cultural learning opportunities for nursing students. However, students enrolled in community…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
Terri Lee Schroth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While many studies have been conducted on study abroad programs, few have sought to examine the inner workings of a short-term, non-traditional (non-classroom based) program, particularly from the participants' point-of-view. This in-depth case study explores a short-term (4-week) cultural and linguistic internship program, "LSU in the French…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, Internship Programs
Engstler, Caroline – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the linguistic and extralinguistic factors that influence changes in performance in second language speech perception and speech production experienced by study-abroad returnees in the first nine months after the end of the study-abroad program. English-French bilinguals who had recently returned from a four-month study…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Retention (Psychology)
Conner, Nathan William – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate students in a college of agricultural and life sciences experienced cultural adaptation during short-term study abroad programs. The specific objectives of this study were to describe how undergraduate students in the college of agricultural and life sciences experienced culture throughout…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Acculturation, Agricultural Education, Physical Sciences
Teaching American Culture in France: Language Assistants' Identity Construction and Interculturality
Dargent-Wallace, Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates the identity and interculturality development of English-language teaching assistants through their perceptions of their experiences living and working in France. The study is framed using Bourdieu's (1979, 2000) notions of habitus and cultural capital, and draws from Byram's (2000) "intercultural mediator" and…
Descriptors: North Americans, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries
Sato, Deirdre Colby – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine whether and how short-term study abroad programs transform college students' perspectives. The study examined attitudes about host country and international outlook, as well as intellectual, social and personal understandings. Short-term programs were defined as programs of less than a semester or a…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Summer Programs, Foreign Countries, College Students
