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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cultural immersion"”.
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Multicultural Competence for Counseling Students Experiencing Cultural Immersion
… can facilitate counselor development of multicultural competence within the context of graduate counseling programs (e.g., Chu-Lien Chao, 2012; Constantine, 2001; Constantine, Juby, and Liang, 2001; Dickson and Jepsen, 2007; Sodowsky et al., 1998). Much less research has focused on counselor …
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Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion
This study explored the role of cultural aesthetic expressions (often also referred to in this study as cultural arts) play in perceptions of learning while individuals are in the ongoing process of being immersed in a non-native culture. This inquiry focused specifically on the narratives of seven …
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Cultivating Multicultural Learning Environments: A Blueprint for Establishing a Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin
… Jin Abstract This qualitative study explores how cultural inclusivity can be fostered in elementary education through the development of an independent Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin. Grounded in multicultural education and culturally responsive pedagogy, …
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Changes in Social Distance Among American Undergraduate Students Participating in a Study Abroad Program in China
… research has been done regarding changes that cultural immersion produces among those who reside in different cultures. Studies about study abroad programs have focused on cultural sensitivity and adaptability, yet few have combined the study abroad experience with the perceptions of self and …
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Predictors of Intercultural Competence Among International Volunteers
… service: IVS) has the potential to promote intercultural competence, or "the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in intercultural situations based on one's intercultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes": Deardorff, 2008: 33). Although conditions of IVS vary greatly across …
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Service-Learning and Jesuit Pedagogy: A Critical Analysis
… development, reflection, social justice, and cultural immersion. The result is a framework of five characteristics (social justice, solidarity, service, reflection, and academic rigor) essential for service-learning to meet the demands of Jesuit pedagogy.</p>
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Host Families’ Perspectives of the Impact of the Commodification of Education on the Student-Host Family Relationship in Study Abroad
… been viewed as the ideal format for cultural immersion and language acquisition, research has largely overlooked how these trends affect the student-host family relationship from the family's perspective. </p> <p>This study examines whether, and, if so, how Spanish host families …
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Higher Education as a “Smart” U.s. Foreign Policy Tool: Assessing the Attitudes of U.S. Trained Foreign Nationals
… of this qualitative study was to explore if the cultural immersion process towhich American Universities subject their international students leads to their long-term adoption of American values and opinions. Grounded upon the concept of smart power, Nye argued that the attractiveness of shared …
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Cross-Cultural Leadership: Best Practices In Multinational Graduate Education
… counterparts in complex international and intercultural settings. If higher education is the path to cognition, metacognition, motivation and behavior, then it may be an effective instrument for developing leadership readiness for a range of international/inter-cultural tasks. This study …
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Producing the Global Classroom: Exploring the Impact of US Study Abroad on Host Communities in San Jose, Costa Rica and Florence, Italy
… rhetoric which centers ideas of mutual cross-cultural exchange, and study abroad research, which focuses almost exclusively on the educational and experiential outcomes of the US based participant. Using neoliberalism as a theoretical framework, this comparative case study utilizes qualitative …
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Towards an Anthropology of Service-Learning: An Exploration of the Impact of a Cross-Cultural, Service-Learning Experience on Health Professional Students
… a clinical rotation, better described as a cross-cultural, service-learning program, in the Dominican Republic. The program both incorporates and extends beyond traditional service-learning models by emphasizing cultural immersion, community service, and reflective practices rooted in Jesuit …
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A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Senior-year Undergraduates’ Essence of Lived Global-Citizenship (GC) Experiences Within Study Abroad Programs (SAPS) at Jesuit Catholic Universities in the U.S. Midwest (UMI) Province of the Society of Jesus (SJ)
… paradigm (IPP), the common good, justice, cultural immersion, reflective global citizenship integration model (RGCIM)
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Aboriginal Education for Non-Aboriginal Learners: Engaging Teacher Candidates in an Immersive Cultural Experience
… describes a weekend-long land-based Immersive Cultural Experience facilitated by two Anishinaabe Elders, involving six non-Aboriginal Teacher Candidates from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education's Bachelor of Education program. The research was proposed and carried out respecting …
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Implications of language and cultural differences on the quality of healthcare provided by expatriate healthcare practitioners in Lesotho public hospitals: Development of an intervention
… communication challenges due to linguistic and cultural differences between healthcare practitioners and patients. Many international studies indicate that the presence of language and cultural differences in healthcare is likely to lead to several negative outcomes. Chiehi et al. (2017) and …