H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

YouthCult · The Cultural Experience of International Students: Narratives from North and South Europe

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-09-01 → 2018-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 179 326 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Личният опит на студенти в чужбина, като например как прекарват времето си и какво мислят за него, се анализира чрез техните разкази. Това помага да се разбере как пребиваването в друга държава влияе върху изграждането на идентичността им и преодоляването на социалните граници.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

The Cultural Experience of International Students: Narratives from North and South Europe

Beyond exposure to the media, consumption practices and short vacations, students who spend time studying abroad are crucial subjects for the European integration process. A core objective of policymakers is to foster young people’s trans-national cultural knowledge. The key question is whether and how students’ life experiences abroad on their way to adulthood contribute to overcoming cultural and social boundaries. Studying abroad is a growing and institutionalized practice. Year 2017 was the 30th anniversary of the Erasmus program: 9 million people were involved in the exchange. The impressive trend of this social and cultural phenomenon is accompanied by a knowledge gap. Beyond quantitative socio-demographic data, there is little qualitative empirical material for a deeper understanding of students’ overall experience from an authentically narrative and comparative slant. The YouthCult project aimed to fill this knowledge gap: a major step beyond the state of the art. Using a mixed-method and interdisciplinary approach, it explored the implications of educational travel within the broader context of students’ lives. The overall narrative approach makes a unique contribution to a clear, in-depth and comprehensive vision of what students abroad are actually doing and what they think about it. The overall objectives of this project are: interpreting the biographical and generational meanings given by a group of international students to their educational, cultural and overall life experience abroad; exploring whether studying abroad can constitute a liminal and transitional space-time towards adulthood, Europeanism and cosmopolitanism; reconstructing a “Grand Narrative” of cultural experiences abroad from international students’ subjective scripts.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Young people are travelling more than ever before. Studying abroad is a growing and institutionalized practice, as in the Erasmus program. To find out what they’re getting out of this travelling, we have to get them to tell their stories and explore the meanings of their experience within the broader context of their lives. The results of this comparative study can usefully orient EU policymakers in sustaining young people in their transitional challenges – becoming adults, Europeans and citizens of a globalized world – fostering ongoing education in cultural diversity enhancing life for all Europeans. The key question is if and how students’ experiences abroad are contributing to overcoming cultural and social boundaries. Using a mixed-method and interdisciplinary approach, this innovative study investigates the meanings given by a group of 60 international students to their educational, cultural and overall life experience abroad (Finland and Italy). Through analysis of autobiographical-autoethnographical essays, ethnographical observations, focus groups and in-depth interviews I will address topics connected with self-construction processes in another culture: family of origin and its economic, social and cultural capital; perception of European social and cultural identity and sense of belonging to a “Cosmopolitan Generation”; fundamental cultural objects shaping the idea of Italy (South) Finland (North) and Europe in general; interaction with locals and involvement in the host culture; key life passages during students’ stay abroad. The narrative approach yields a clear, in-depth and comprehensive vision of what students abroad are actually doing and what they think about it. Beyond quantitative data, qualitative empirical material of this kind is rare; findings will offer unique insights on human life-span development, cultural globalization, social mobility, migration, tourism and education, enhancing intra-European education and mobility policies.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiКоординаторФинландия