Teaching Expatriate Adaptation While Dealing with Reality: The Impact of a Tragedy on the Study-Abroad Experience

Autor/inn/en	Levine, Kenneth J.; Levine, Sally L.
Titel	Teaching Expatriate Adaptation While Dealing with Reality: The Impact of a Tragedy on the Study-Abroad Experience
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 4 (2014) 4, S.342-350 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Study Abroad; Models; Summer Programs; International Educational Exchange; Quasiexperimental Design; Acculturation; Accidents; Tragedy; Death; Student Adjustment; Case Studies; Intercultural Communication; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Journalism Education; Communications; Culture Conflict; Student Attitudes; Educational Experience; Foreign Countries; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Analogiemodell; Sommerkurs; Internationaler Austausch; Akkulturation; Tragik; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Graduate Study; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Nachrichtenwesen; Kulturkonflikt; Schülerverhalten; Bildungserfahrung; Ausland; Frankreich
Abstract	This paper explores the relevance of the accepted U-shaped models of expatriate adaptation to students engaged in an international educational experience when they are faced with a tragedy. In this study-abroad course, an examination of the existing adaptation models and how they provide a set of expectations for the process of cultural adjustment is presented as course material. During a particular four-week summer program, one of the nineteen students who went abroad died in an accident at the end of the first week. It became clear after the tragedy that the models studied failed to explain the impact of a personal tragedy of this magnitude on the students' adjustment process. This unfortunate event provided an opportunity to conduct a quasi-experiment to consider the impact of personal tragedy for students to question a body of research through their own personal experience and for scholars to re-examine and update the existing models to incorporate these findings. (As Provided).
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