A Phase-Model of the Cross-Cultural Learning Process of LIS International Doctoral Students: Characteristics and Interventions
(2005) A Phase-Model of the Cross-Cultural Learning Process of LIS International Doctoral Students: Characteristics and Interventions. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 42, Charlotte (US).
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Abstract
This paper develops a phase-model of the cross-cultural learning process of LIS international doctoral students and
provides a consolidated, in-depth, and comprehensive look at their experiences that extends prior anecdotal and
survey-based efforts. Semi-structured interviews along with informal discussions, analysis of electronic interactions,
and observations as a participant researcher identify cross-cultural learning experiences of all the twenty-two
international doctoral students from a representative LIS program in the United States. The phases in the model of the
cross-cultural learning process represent significant cognitive (thoughts), affective (feelings), and physical (actions) aspects of the experiences of LIS international doctoral students. Mapping participants’ concerns and challenges during each phase is used to highlight interventions at the level of discipline, program, faculty, doctoral student community, and individual student that together provide a practical application to the research. Proposed interventions need to be holistically applied in conjunction with each other to promote mutual “two-way” learning where international students learn from the discipline and the discipline learns from the international students. Such an approach suggests symbiotic connections between improvements in effectiveness of student learning and efforts to tap into the cultural knowledge of international students to further growth in internationalization of LIS education in the United States.
| Keywords: | LIS education ; international students ; cross-cultural learning |
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| Subjects: | G. Industry, profession and education. > GG. Curricula aspects. G. Industry, profession and education. > GH. Education. A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field. |
| ID Code: | 5231 |
| Deposited By: | Medeiros, Norm |
| Deposited On: | 03 March 2006 |
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