Essays about: "study abroad programs"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words study abroad programs.
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1. Unheard Women's Voices in Swedish International Higher Education: Personalizing Trajectories of Female Postgraduate Students and Motherhood
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktikAbstract : This study comparatively analyzes the narratives containing six international graduate student mothers’ lived experiences. Stories about intersectional identities and their transformation process through new experiences were reconstructed by the participants as storytellers. READ MORE
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2. Reverse Culture Shock : An Insight Into Returning Student Sojourners at Malmö University and Their Experience Of reverse Culture Shock
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : As opposed to culture shock, where one experience difficulties going to a new country andculture, reverse culture shock is the difficulties one experiences when returning home.Reverse culture shock describes the phenomenon of the disorientation and negative feelingsoften experienced when an individual becomes a returning sojourner. READ MORE
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3. Supporting Military Personnel To Speak Up In Ad Hoc Teams During National Crisis Support Operations: Aspects Learned During The COVID-19 Crisis In The Netherlands
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : In their work, military personnel will face risks and threats: during deployments in ambiguous high risk mission contexts abroad, but also in peacetime in the Netherlands during training programs and exercises or national support operations. In all these contexts, it is crucial that team members speak up: sharing concerns, asking questions and providing ideas supports effective team decision making for coping with risks and threats and in extremis can make the difference between life and death. READ MORE
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4. International Educational Exchange Programs as a Promoter of Peace? : Moving Beyond Assumptions of Attitude Change to Identify a Causal Pathway
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : This study asks, “How can international educational exchange contribute to more peacefulsocieties?” To test the first two steps in a proposed causal pathway, this paper hypothesizes thatstudents from non-democratic countries who study in a democratic country will 1) have more favorable views toward human rights than students who have not studied in a democratic country; and 2) be more likely to advocate for human rights protections in their home country than students who have not studied in a democratic country. Utilizing a natural experiment design, this study did not find support for either hypothesis when comparing international students who had studied in the United States with those who were unable to due to Covid-19. READ MORE
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5. A literature review -nurses’ interventions to prevent ESBLproducing bacterial infections
University essay fromAbstract : ESBL-producing bacteria are the second most common antibiotic resistant bacterial group occurring in Sweden. Colonization caused by ESBL-producing bacteria pose a serious challenge for treatment of both common and life-threatening infections. READ MORE
