Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with external supervisors of international electives undertaken by Dutch undergraduate students, in order to gain insight into student learning processes during these electives. The interviews served to triangulate information on these learning processes that was obtained from students' self-reports. The results of the case study reported in this paper were largely consistent with findings from prior studies of international electives in which learning processes and sociocultural differences were examined: experiential learning processes appeared to dominate and sociocultural differences occasionally seemed to blur productive learning, especially when the differences between the national cultures of host country and student home country were substantial. It is recommended that students' experiential learning from international electives should be supplemented with 'guided' and 'self-directed' learning with a focus on the sociocultural dimension.
Source: Medical Teacher
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Universiteit Maastricht
OpenAlex ID: W2083361676