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ERIC Number: EJ1456880
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2151-0393
EISSN: EISSN-2151-0407
The Lived Experience of Internationally Mobile Students: A Longitudinal Study
Megan M. Siczek
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, v16 n5 p33-44 2024
In response to calls for more individualized research on international student mobility (ISM), this article reports on a hermeneutic phenomenological study into the lived experience of two participants, one from Inner Mongolia, China and one from Ecuador, who migrated internationally for higher education. Within a constructivist epistemological framework, this study reveals how these participants describe and interpret their international mobility experience across four semi-structured interviews over a ten-year period. Four key themes were identified through interpretive data analysis: (1) study abroad as self-initiated and self-fulfilling; (2) characterizations of key moments shaping the ISM experience (10-year lens); (3) construction of self through international student mobility; and (4) complex perceptions relating to "home." A key contribution of this research is substantiating how individuals display agency within the context of ISM, both in their practical responses to circumstances and in their growing sense of self-actualization.
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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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