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Ruano, Bruna; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – Intercultural Education, 2023
This paper reflects on the problems faced by refugee students during the COVID-19 pandemic (summer semester 2020) as "calouros," i.e. freshmen during their first year, in a public university in Brazil. Through a content analysis of their personal accounts, collected electronically by their teacher of Portuguese for academic purposes (the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Foreign Students, Learning
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Chang, Wei-Wen; Chen, Cheng-Hui Lucy; Huang, Yu-Fu; Yuan, Yu-Hsi – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
Empirical studies have found that participation in international service increases learners' intercultural competence, language skills, appreciation of cultural differences, and tolerance for ambiguity. While previous studies suggest that international service experience is potentially transformative in nature, the present study examined…
Descriptors: Service Learning, International Programs, Transformative Learning, Social Psychology