ERIC Number: EJ1140268
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Internationalisation and the Development of Students' Intercultural Competence
Lantz-Deaton, Caprice
Teaching in Higher Education, v22 n5 p532-550 2017
Universities' internationalisation rhetoric suggests that students studying on internationally diverse campuses will automatically engage positively with one another and develop intercultural competence. This study examined the extent to which a cohort of first year UK and non-UK students studying on an internationally diverse campus developed intercultural competence. The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) and a locally designed survey were used to assess students' intercultural competence and to explore their intercultural experiences over seven months. Students began almost exclusively in lower (ethnocentric) stages of intercultural development and most showed little progress despite reporting relatively high levels of intercultural contact, friends from other cultures and positive experiences. Findings suggest that even positive intercultural experiences do not necessarily lead to the development of intercultural competence and that university policy and practice may need to be enhanced if producing graduates with higher levels of intercultural competence is to become a realised outcome of internationalisation.
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Measures (Individuals), College Students, School Policy, Universities, Foreign Students, College Freshmen, Surveys, Student Attitudes, Ethnocentrism, Friendship, Intergroup Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Multiple Regression Analysis, Educational Experience, Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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