Promoting International Perspectives through Self-Selected Online Texts

In the ongoing pandemic context, short-term study abroad opportunities remain limited for many students. As a result, there has been a need for universities to develop educational innovations for home context learning to meet institutional intercultural learning aims. The purpose of this action rese...

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Published in:Frontiers (Boston, Mass.) Mass.), 2022-11, Vol.34 (4), p.317-328
Main Authors: Humphreys, Gareth, Hirschel, Rob
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship Education
College Freshmen
Electronic Learning
Electronic Publishing
Foreign Countries
Intercultural Programs
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Social Problems
Study Abroad
Web Sites
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Summary:In the ongoing pandemic context, short-term study abroad opportunities remain limited for many students. As a result, there has been a need for universities to develop educational innovations for home context learning to meet institutional intercultural learning aims. The purpose of this action research paper is to outline how a small-scale e-learning innovation was designed based on characteristics of intercultural citizenship education to encourage connections with, and responsibility towards, communities beyond national borders. The innovation involved critical exploration of a student-selected social issue using online texts, and reflections and blogging on the issue from individual, local, national, and international perspectives. A qualitative content analysis of reflections in blogposts of 49 students showed that the majority expressed connections with intercultural citizenship, though a minority rejected international identifications. The paper offers a timely and systematically designed intercultural e-learning innovation, implementable in other contexts, to support intercultural learning in a context of limited study abroad.
ISSN:1085-4568
2380-8144
DOI:10.36366/frontiers.v34i4.754