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Education abroad participants worldwide are often positively transformed by their experiences and, as a result, gain a great deal of knowledge, resources, ideas, and high levels of inspiration which can positively impact the individual, and local and global communities—contributing to global development. However, education abroad participants face challenges and are often not prepared for making lasting positive change in their local and global communities post-education abroad, known as the reentry phase. Moreover, they do not fully understand the potential positive impacts they can have on society as a result of their education abroad experiences. This is of significant importance for a world that continues to rapidly globalize, advance technologically faster than ever before, and faces challenges and opportunities that require globally experienced people. Through surveys and interviews with 156 participants from 32 countries, this transformative mixed methods research provides strong evidence for the high levels of benefits participants gain, and how they are positively transformed and motivated to make local and global impacts after their education abroad experiences. The data provides insights into participant perceptions, ideas, opportunities, and challenges surrounding these topics, and identifies differences and similarities in participant and program types that best prepare, support, and enable participants during the re-entry phase. It also provides insights on how stakeholders (e.g. educational, public, private, non-governmental, civil society, and personal support systems) can transform current research, models, and policies to be able to support participants in becoming social entrepreneur change agents, and forge a more holistic approach towards global education mobility and global development. The more than 4.5 million people that currently engage in education abroad annually is a population projected to increase to more than 8 million participants by 2025. They represent only 0.06% of the world’s 7 billion population from almost all countries, including developing, emerging, and highly developed. Therefore, this unique population of highly educated and globally exposed future world leaders and decision-makers represents a comparatively uniquely privileged group that have the potential (and responsibility) to make important global development impacts after their education abroad experiences.
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Title
- Education abroad as a catalyst for impactful global development: the global impact of the missing focus on the re-entry phase
Contributors
- Curiel, Katharine Lee (Author)
- Parmentier, Mary Jane (Thesis advisor)
- Henderson, Mark (Committee member)
- Singh, Moninder (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2016
Subjects
- Education
- Education (Higher)
- International relations
- Education Abroad
- global development
- Education (Higher)
- International Education
- re-entry
- Social Entrepreneurship
- International Education
- Foreign study--Evaluation.
- Foreign study
- Reverse culture shock--Evaluation.
- Reverse Culture Shock
- Development leadership--Study and teaching (Higher)
- Development leadership
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2016
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 71-75)
- Field of study: Global technology and development
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Statement of Responsibility
by Katharine Lee Curiel