Encountering the Emergence of Curiosity in a Sojourn Experience
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami15331131637518232021-08-03T07:07:53Z Encountering the Emergence of Curiosity in a Sojourn Experience Young, Cheryl Denise Educational Leadership curiosity currere study abroad Institutions of higher education in the United States are undertaking strategies to comprehensively internationalize across all realms of the university. Embedded into institutional strategies is an expectation that a study abroad cultural immersion experience for undergraduates will increase their intercultural and global competence. One of the competencies identified as important to cultivate through the sojourner experience is curiosity. The object of this study is curiosity as an intercultural competence. The literature on curiosity as an intercultural competence is focused on a pre-conceived notion of curiosity, and from this arises a need to examine the manifestation of the phenomenon of curiosity in a sojourn experience to recognize it and subsequently understand through future research projects how it can be cultivated through intentionally designed curriculum and pedagogy. The question that guided this study is: What is the lived experience of human interpersonal curiosity as it manifests in an intercultural learning experience that takes students into an unfamiliar culture? This study was designed to examine undergraduate, American, study abroad students’ experiences of the phenomenon of curiosity during a cross-cultural study abroad experience, and to explore the essence of curiosity. Interviews with and observations of students in the pre- and post-study abroad phase, as well as during their sojourn experience, revealed that student curiosity is strongly influenced by teachers and cultivated by school enrichment programs. Intercultural wonderment encompasses student curiosity and involves a willingness to engage with the discomfort of the unknown. The discomfort of intercultural wonderment leads to a breakthrough in which the threshold concept of culture-as-meta-context propels the students into a transformed worldview. The currere method brought a richness of depth of the exploration to engage the students in reflecting on their educational experiences, as well as social media images and text. The narrative is framed through the researcher’s currere perspective which serves as a signpost throughout the exploration while moving it through hermeneutic circles framed in regressive, progressive, analytical, and synthetical steps. 2018-08-01 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533113163751823 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533113163751823 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: some rights reserved. It is licensed for use under a Creative Commons license. Specific terms and permissions are available from this document's record in the OhioLINK ETD Center. |
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