Longitudinal impacts of short-term international courses and application to educational practices

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K17647
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education; Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Ochanomizu University (2019); The University of Tokyo (2017-2018)
• Principal Investigator: SAKURAI Yusuke お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 講師 (60771219)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 国際教育 / 教育の質保証 / 教育開発 / 留学 / 学習成果 / 教育工学 / 教育評価 / 縦断的調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

(1) The study interviewed 25 undergraduate students. The analysis was carried out to explore students' learning outcomes of short-term international courses using an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach. The study summarised the students' learning outcomes into the four major themes: "descipline-specific matter", "generic skill", "global awareness", and "personal growth".
(2) Among the learning outcomes, the study examined how students' subject-specific knowledge which was attained in their short-term international courses developed in thier daily academic studies on campus and at their personal sphere. The study also probed factors contributing to thier engagement of, or disengagement from thier continuing studies. The results suggested that students' solid motivation was mandatory for their continuouse learning, and that the university curriculum structure also limited their engagement in further developping subject-specific knowledge.

Free Research Field

国際教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで短期間の国際研修の成果に関する研究では、主に学生の異文化感受性や言語運用力の開発に注目した検討がなされてきた。本研究はまず、これらの領域にとらわれずより広く学習成果を把握しようとした。限られた国際的な研究成果を鑑みると、本研究は先行研究の再現性を確認することになり、日本での国際研修の成果も国際的な文脈での研究成果を再現しうるものであることが確認できた。一方、学生の学習成果が長期的にどう発展していくのかどうかについてはほとんど研究がなく、この本研究の2つ目の観点は重要な意義を持つ。