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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"sojourning"”.
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Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students
Whereas concerns for international students frequently appear in existing literature, little attention is paid to wives of international students (WoIS). This study aims at describing and understanding lives of WoIS in the United States as sojourners in the margin. The research begins with a …
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Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
… returning home at the end of their study. These sojourning students are typically accompanied by their spouses and children, causing a noticeable influx of Saudi families in educational institutions as well as society at large. Sojourning students have been the focus of research in the United …
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Intercultural communication and adaptation: A longitudinal study of Taiwanese graduate students' sojourning experiences in a Midwestern American university
The study investigated twenty Taiwanese students' adaptation during their first year of graduate study in a Midwestern American university. The students were balanced between the sexes and natural sciences vs. social sciences-humanities. Interpretive qualitative methods were employed. Three …
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The role that experiential learning plays in intercultural awareness development: A case study of South Korean students sojourning in New Zealand
… in-depth are the perceptions that the sojourning students’ perceptions of the quality of experience that homestays and other informal activities they undergo, and the overall impact these experiences have on a sojourn. Moreover, little research has investigated the dynamic relationship …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… research also aims to learn how the students’ sojourning experiences influenced their mindsets as future returnee students. I conducted an in-depth case study with a phenomenographic approach as the theoretical framework to deeply investigate the lives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students. …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… 1910-1950” argues that black sportswriters and sojourning ballplayers worked as critical international correspondents for black news publications in the first half of the twentieth century. After spending summer or winter months in Latin America, athletes returned home and visited headquarters …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… Chinese were largely attributable to their sojourning mentality and ethnic-cultural background. Such factors as motivation to succeed in a host country, personal efforts and business skills, as well as ethnically-based xinyong relationships, distribution networks and trade organizations gave …
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The Chinese in the Philippine economy, 1898-1941 : a study of their business achievements and limitations
… Chinese were largely attributable to their sojourning mentality and ethnic-cultural background. Such factors as motivation to succeed in a host country, personal efforts and business skills, as well as ethnically-based xinyong relationships, distribution networks and trade organizations gave …
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The Short-Term Study Travel Experience for Adult Professionals: A Phenomenological Study
… This study confirmed previous studies related to sojourning and international travel as related to experiential learning, increasing the understanding of the short-term travel abroad experience and its meaning to the adult learner.
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Learning to become a subject: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of students in a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Germany
… for this by using the theoretical construct of sojourning (learning as guided apprenticeship in landscapes of practice) (Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2015, Rogoff, 1995). I also explore ways in which formal learning situations can also afford learning to become a subject.
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The regulation of human iron metabolism in hypoxia
… exposure suppresses resting hepcidin levels in sojourning mountaineers, but its influence on the post-exercise hepcidin response exercise has not yet been investigated. Therefore, Study Two investigated how 14 days of live high: train low (LHTL) (exposure to 3,000 m simulated altitude for 14 …
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Understanding the Adjustment Needs of International Graduate Students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
… an education with the majority of students sojourning from China, India, and South Korea (Valenzuela, Palacios, & Intindola, 2015). It is important that the particular needs of this population are understood and met by the universities that house them, primarily in regards to its effect on …