scholarly journals Study Abroad and the City: Bringing the Lessons Back Home

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
Exchange Partner ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Transition Project ◽  
Partner Relationships ◽  
The City ◽  
Curricular Interventions

In 2005, Beloit College launched its Cities in Transition project, intended to strengthen learning outcomes for students studying abroad at several of its exchange partner universities.  The College greatly valued its exchange partner relationships.  However, a variety of factors, including living in foreign student dormitories and taking classes for foreigners, made it difficult for students to achieve hoped-for language gains and increased country knowledge.  This article discusses the obstacles to learning that students face when studying abroad and how faculty development initiatives have helped Beloit College develop curricular interventions to improve study abroad learning outcomes.  Furthermore, these interventions, which have involved experiential learning in the cities in which the students study, have led to curricular innovations in Beloit that have the potential to positively impact both students who study abroad and those who remain in Beloit throughout their undergraduate studies.

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Fostering Reflection

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Hamilton ◽  
Donald Rubin ◽  
Michael Tarrant ◽  
Mikkel Gleason
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Promising Strategy ◽  
Digital Story ◽  
Digital Stories ◽  
Fostering Reflection

Reflection is an essential process for optimizing student learning outcomes in study abroad. Composing digital stories is a promising strategy for achieving high quality reflection. In this project we developed and explicated a rubric for assessing how students used the d igital storytelling format to reflect on their study abroad experiences. We analyzed undergraduates’ digital stories for evidence of both (a) disciplinary thinking in the field of sustainability and (b) intercultural understanding. Qualitative findings sug gest that the digital story format offers students an opportunity to weave together digital artifacts that they often are already collecting. The process of creating digital stories both promotes and displays reflection. We also present an adapted rubric f or assessing targeted learning outcomes manifest in digital stories produce d by learners studying abroad. Applying the rubric revealed variability among students in achieving the aims of a digital story reflectionassignment.

From Cicero to Mohammed Atta: People, Politics, and Study Abroad

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Ronald Cluett
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Foreign Student ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Context Learning

My own contribution to the literature on experiential learning is intended as a reminder that however novel the term, and however modern (indeed, post-modern) many of the issues surrounding it may be, the phenomenon itself is anything but new. Experiential overseas learning dates back at least as far as when young Romans traveled to Athens to study at the feet of the great philosophers and rhetors; it also enjoys a distinguished history in both Western and non-Western societies. The examples I have chosen—17th century Russia and 19th century China—are but two, particularly fascinating and well-attested, examples of what seems a persistent constellation of human impulses: to travel, to learn from travel, and to learn from travel by doing. Bureaucratic complexity and controversial policy and pedagogical issues are never far from these episodes of experiential learning over the centuries. My discussion concludes, for a number of reasons, with the most notorious foreign student of our time. For one thing, the ‘career’ of Mohammed Atta raises important questions that challenge our easy assumptions about cultural assimilation and the value of overseas vocational training. For another, his life and career both conform to and challenge an important paradigm I identify in experiential learning throughout history. Finally, his example reminds us that our appreciation of the novelty of our own experience is both confirmed and called into question by the search for historical context—learning how to learn from the past may take place more often in the library and the archives than in the field, but is no less experiential if undertaken seriously.

Emplacing Berlin: Digital Itineraries and Short-term Study Abroad in the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Apgar
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
The City

As destination of choice for many short-term study abroad programs, Berlin offers students of German language, culture and history a number of sites richly layered with significance. The complexities of these sites and the competing narratives that surround them are difficult for students to grasp in a condensed period of time. Using approaches from the spatial humanities, this article offers a case study for enhancing student learning through the creation of digital maps and itineraries in a campus-based course for subsequent use during a three-week program in Berlin. In particular, the concept of deep mapping is discussed as a means of augmenting understanding of the city and its history from a narrative across time to a narrative across the physical space of the city. As itineraries, these course-based projects were replicated on site. In moving from the digital environment to the urban landscape, this article concludes by noting meanings uncovered and narratives formed as we moved through the physical space of the city.

scholarly journals Promoting intercultural competence in study abroad students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Tarchi ◽  
Alessio Surian
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Active Control ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Short Intervention ◽  
Study Abroad Students

AbstractUniversities have been promoting study abroad programmes for a long time to improve intercultural competence. However, the mere exposure to cultural differences while studying abroad does not ensure intercultural competence, unless study abroad students’ reflective processes are explicitly targeted. The article presents the results of a short intervention grounded in the problem-based approach aimed at improving intercultural competence in study abroad students. Students were assigned to three conditions: a video-log condition (in which they have to narrate a critical incident occurred to them), a reflection-induced video-logs (in which they were prompted to reflect on the video-logs produced), and an active control condition. The reflection-induced video-log intervention improved students’ perceived proficiency in Italian and perceived opportunities for cultural reflection, but it did not contribute to improve students’ applicable and conceptual knowledge of intercultural competence.

Deciphering the rising attractiveness of Asian countries as destinations for Vietnamese students seeking international education: The effect of desire for studying abroad on Vietnamese students' career planning and decision-making processes in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
International Education ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Planning Factor ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, Vietnamese students choose to study abroad in Asian countries, with Taiwan being one of the most appealing locations so far. The purpose of this research is to explain the planning process used by Vietnamese students to study abroad (the host country is Taiwan), as well as to suggest an appropriate model for students' decision-making once the desire to study abroad is established, in which the impact of career path on school selection is clarified and the importance of motivation to study abroad is emphasized.This research used a mixed-methods approach. In-depth interviews with 30 Vietnamese students studying in Taiwan are conducted using a qualitative methodology. The data gathered during those interviews is utilized to build questionnaires that will be sent to over 300 samples for quantitative study.The research findings demonstrate the primary elements influencing students' desire to study abroad, career planning, and decision-making in Taiwan, as well as the model of students' decision-making process. It is obvious that students' desire to study abroad has a direct effect on their career-planning factor, while this factor acts as a mediator between the aforementioned motivation and the students' decision-making factor.

Japanese English Majors’ Experiences and Attitudes to Study Abroad: A Case Study of Students at a Private University in Tokyo

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
Anthony Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
English Language ◽  
Private University ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
Overseas Travel ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Japanese English

This study investigates both the benefits of and recent trends in studying abroad for Japanese students and examines the results of a survey on study abroad taken by students majoring in English at a private university in Tokyo. Statistics from JASSO showed that the trend in study abroad before 2020 was for an increasing number of Japanese university students to spend a period of time studying abroad, though most of the increase was in short-term study. The English language questionnaire sought to discover what proportion of a group of seventy-two students had already studied abroad, or planned to do so, and to establish whether those who had gained experience had benefited from it, as well as detailing student anxieties which may have deterred students from studying abroad. The survey on study abroad, taken in January 2018, had a 100% response rate. Twenty-three (32%) of the students answered that they had already studied abroad, mostly for short durations in English-speaking countries. Most of the students who studied abroad had a positive experience, reputedly improved their English skills and recommended that other students study abroad. Twenty-six (53%) of the students without study abroad experience were planning to study abroad, even though they had some issues which concerned them, such as their ability to communicate in English, personal safety, and financial matters. The main reason for not electing to study abroad for this particular sample was found to be related to the overall costs of overseas travel, accommodation, and tuition. この研究では日本人学生に対する留学の利点および最近の留学の傾向を調べ、さら に東京の私立大学で英語を専攻している学生に対して実施した留学についての調査 の結果を検討している。JASSO の統計によると、２０２０年までは留学する日本人 大学生の数は増加傾向であったが、そのほとんどは短期留学であった。英語で行わ れたアンケート調査の目的は、著者の三つのクラスの７２名の学生のうちの何割が 留学経験がある、もしくは留学の予定があるか、またすでに留学した学生はその経 験から恩恵を受けたと感じているか、学生は留学をするにあたってどのような不安 を持つか、さらに留学しないと答えた学生の場合は留学しない理由を明らかにする ことである。２０１８年１月に行われた調査の回答率は１００パーセントであっ た。２３人（３２パーセント）の学生は留学経験があり、ほとんどの場合が英語圏 の国への短期留学である。留学経験のある学生の大半数が有益な経験ができ、英語 力が上達したと感じており、他の学生に留学を勧めると答えている。留学経験のな い学生の２６人（５３パーセント）が留学する予定だが、英語のコミュニケーショ ン、安全、金銭などについて不安を感じていた。留学しない理由については、旅 費、宿泊代、授業料など経済的な理由が大半であった。

Promoting international learning outcomes during a study abroad: the moderating role of internationalisation at home

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris Boonen ◽  
Ankie Hoefnagels ◽  
Mark Pluymaekers ◽  
Armand Odekerken
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Home Institution ◽  
Internationalisation At Home ◽  
International Learning ◽  
At Home

PurposeThe authors examine the role of internationalisation at-home activities and an international classroom at a home institution to promote intercultural competence development during a study abroad.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use large scale longitudinal data from the global mind monitor (GMM) (2018–2020) to examine change over time in both multicultural personality (MPQ) and cultural knowledge (CQ) among students in Dutch higher education institutions. The authors analyse the moderating effect of the preparation in the home institution by looking at the added value of both intercultural communication courses and international classroom setting for intercultural competence development during a study abroad.FindingsThe results show that particularly courses on intercultural communication significantly promote intercultural competence development during a stay abroad. Frequent interactions with international staff also seem to be beneficial for this development.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was conducted in the Netherlands, in one of the most internationalised educational systems in the world. Therefore, it is difficult to generalise these findings to other contexts before any further empirical research is conducted.Practical implicationsBased on the findings, the authors formulate practical advice for higher education institutions that aim to get the most out of the international learning outcomes of a study abroad.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to assess the moderating effect of preparatory internationalisation at home initiatives on the intercultural learning effects of international experiences later on in a study program. Other studies have proposed that these effects will exist but have not tested them empirically with longitudinal data.

‘Dracarys’ for all: TV series and experiential learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110533
Author(s):  
Brigitte Biehl
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Film Experience ◽  
Specific Learning ◽  
Point Of Reference

Film has been widely used for management learning, mostly with a focus on the story rather than on the film experience. This study draws on arts-based learning literature, film studies and data from learning interactions, and develops a taxonomy of experiential learning with film as a specific art form and emotional medium. The taxonomy includes three elements: making a film experience, processing the experience and cultural aesthetic reflexivity. This study provides process steps and teaching strategies to help move management learners along in the process towards specific learning outcomes. It introduces a film analysis tool as a method that can be used to overcome aesthetic muteness when reflecting on the film experience. The acclaimed and contested TV series Game of Thrones serves as a point of reference, and examples feature the female leader Daenerys Targaryen. The approach is transferable across films and TV series to integrate knowing, experience and emotions and to use popular culture’s critical potential for management learning.

scholarly journals EFEKTIVITAS BUKU AJAR PENDIDIKAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP BERBASIS POTENSI LOKAL TARAKAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Silfia Ilma ◽  
Fitri Wijarini
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Local Potential ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
The City ◽  
Test Result

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Environmental Education Learning Book (PLH) based on Local Potential of Tarakan city. The research method used in this research is classroom action research. Subjects in this study is a class A1 Department of Biology education FKIP University of Borneo Tarakan. The instruments used in this research are test and observation sheet. Analysis of test result data is done descriptively quantitative with percentage technique. The results showed that the use of textbooks based on local potential of Tarakan can improve learning outcomes in the form of students' understanding of biodiversity and natural resource management in the city of Tarakan. Student learning outcomes in cycle 1 of 33.33% and on the second cycle of 94.44%. So it can be concluded the use of local potency-based textbook effective in improving learning outcomes.This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Environmental Education Learning Book (PLH) based on Local Potential of Tarakan city. The research method used in this research is classroom action research. Subjects in this study is a class A1 Department of Biology education FKIP University of Borneo Tarakan. The instruments used in this research are test and observation sheet. Analysis of test result data is done descriptively quantitative with percentage technique. The results showed that the use of textbooks based on local potential of Tarakan can improve learning outcomes in the form of students' understanding of biodiversity and natural resource management in the city of Tarakan. Student learning outcomes in cycle 1 of 33.33% and on the second cycle of 94.44%. So it can be concluded the use of local potency-based textbook effective in improving learning outcomes.

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