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Ojala, Maria – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Transformative learning is important for handling climate change. How to include this kind of learning in formal education is, however, still debated. This article takes a bottom-up approach by learning from young people who make climate-friendly food choices to a high degree. Interviews were performed with Swedish adolescents. By focusing on…
Descriptors: Food, Climate, Transformative Learning, Decision Making
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Ge, L.; Durst, D. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
China remains the top country of citizenship for international students and female students (married and single) comprise part of Chinese international students. However, female international students as a marginalized group face multiple challenges and parental, marital, personal, and cross-cultural situational barriers. Relying on an…
Descriptors: Females, Asians, Graduate Students, Barriers
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Arpiainen, Riitta-Liisa; Kurczewska, Agnieszka – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
This empirical study investigates how students' perceptions of risk-taking and coping with uncertainty change while they are exposed to experience-based entrepreneurship education. The aim of the study is twofold. First, the authors set out to identify the dynamics of entrepreneurial thinking among students experiencing risk and uncertainty while…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teamwork, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Sobkowiak, Pawel – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper presents qualitative research examining to what extent sojourns abroad engage their participants in intercultural interactions and whether or not such experience translates into students' intercultural growth. The results of the study demonstrated that studying abroad did not provide students with ample opportunities to immerse into the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Student Development
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Pilonieta, Paola; Medina, Adriana L.; Hathaway, Jennifer I. – Teacher Educator, 2017
This study explored how a study abroad experience affected preservice teachers' (PSTs') dispositions towards and plans for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs). This qualitative study involved 16 elementary education initial licensure PSTs who participated in a 2-month study abroad trip to Germany. Data in the form of surveys, interviews, and…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Occupational Aspiration