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Schartner, Alina; Cho, Yoonjoo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper reports on a mixed-methods case study investigating how higher education staff and students understand, experience and envision the "international university." As it is becoming clear that international student mobility is not in itself a panacea for universities seeking to internationalise, "internationalisation at…
Descriptors: College Students, Universities, International Education, Student Attitudes
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Almeida, Joana; Fantini, Alvino E.; Simões, Ana Raquel; Costa, Nilza – Intercultural Education, 2016
This paper examines how the addition of intercultural interventions carried out throughout European credit-bearing exchange programmes can enhance sojourners' development of intercultural competencies, and it explores how both formal and non-formal pedagogical interventions may be designed and implemented. Such interventions were conducted at a…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Exchange Programs, Cultural Awareness, Intervention
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Miller, Peter M. – Education and Urban Society, 2015
Family homelessness has been on the rise throughout the United States in recent years. As a result, more schools and communities than ever are challenged to serve students whose lives are touched by instability, uncertainty, and crisis. To date, there has been little inquiry into how families' particular places of homelessness might shape school…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Family Characteristics, Mixed Methods Research, Social Networks
Foster, Monika – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
Cross-border education provides evidence about international student destination choice including the push and pull model of international student choice. The research upon which this article is based, into Brazilian students' decisions to study at universities in the United Kingdom, reveals some particular barriers such as cost, negative past…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Decision Making
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Llurda, Enric; Cots, Josep M.; Armengol, Lurdes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The key role of administrative staff in the implementation of specific institutional policies at university has often been ignored when analysing policies or attitudes related to higher education. Consequently, little is known about the administrative staff's attitudes and involvement relating to the processes of internationalisation and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, International Education