Karaimo Koryu：International Family Homestay Exchange’s Influence on Regional Understandings of Student Participants

• Main Authors: LIN, Chen-Yu, 林辰毓
• Other Authors: 廖學誠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yzu533

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系 === 103 === Developing the Osumi Region in Kagoshima Prefecture, where there was Exodus of rural population and economic decline, Karaimo Koryu was initiated in 1982, inviting foreign exchange students （student participants） to go to Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture of the Southern Kyushu, and to participate in the local developments and to experience the livelihood there. Student participants enter Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture through this program. Acting as a role of family members, student participants participate in the family work, school exchange, regional cultural exchange and etc. in the two-week program and understand the foreign cultures. This research tries to understand the influence of the family homestay program on participants’ regional understandings. This research adopts qualitative methodologies. Through the distribution of questionnaires and in-depth interviews, it understands difference of the participants’ regional experience and regional understandings before and after the program. Through interviews with homestay families, it also understands the motives and purposes of participation, and analyses the influence brought by the programme and how the programme influences the participants to understand foreign cultures. Besides, the research collects the feedback reports written by previous student participants for quantitative analysis.