Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program
In recent years, the demand for more culturally competent candidates has risen as employers seek workers highly adaptable to the global marketplace. Study abroad internship programs offer a rich training ground for college students to gain valuable international and intercultural career experience....
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University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing
2021-12-01
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| description | In recent years, the demand for more culturally competent candidates has risen as employers seek workers highly adaptable to the global marketplace. Study abroad internship programs offer a rich training ground for college students to gain valuable international and intercultural career experience. This study examined the effects of experiential program design on the cultural intelligence of participants in an international internship program. College students from a large Midwestern university were enrolled in an international internship program in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lima, Peru; or Seoul, South Korea. The program design incorporated principles of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) to increase student reflection on their experience and engage them in the ELT cycle. Participants were scored on the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) before and after the internship, and pre-test and post-test scores were compared and analyzed. Findings indicated significant growth in participants’ cultural intelligence. The intentional incorporation of experiential learning principles in the design and implementation of internship abroad programs has clear potential to increase participant’ intercultural competence and develop their skills for the 21st century workplace.<strong></strong> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e2217b0caff46609940a83334f7f5422023-10-11T17:49:16ZengUniversity of South Florida (USF) M3 PublishingJournal of Global Education and Research2577-509X2021-12-015210.5038/2577-509X.5.2.1078Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship programLisa Lambert Snodgrass0Margaret Hass1Mehdi Ghahremani2Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPurdue UniversityIn recent years, the demand for more culturally competent candidates has risen as employers seek workers highly adaptable to the global marketplace. Study abroad internship programs offer a rich training ground for college students to gain valuable international and intercultural career experience. This study examined the effects of experiential program design on the cultural intelligence of participants in an international internship program. College students from a large Midwestern university were enrolled in an international internship program in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lima, Peru; or Seoul, South Korea. The program design incorporated principles of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) to increase student reflection on their experience and engage them in the ELT cycle. Participants were scored on the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS) before and after the internship, and pre-test and post-test scores were compared and analyzed. Findings indicated significant growth in participants’ cultural intelligence. The intentional incorporation of experiential learning principles in the design and implementation of internship abroad programs has clear potential to increase participant’ intercultural competence and develop their skills for the 21st century workplace.<strong></strong>https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jger/vol5/iss2/5cultural competenceexperiential learningprogram designstudy abroadcultural intelligence scale |
| spellingShingle | Lisa Lambert Snodgrass Margaret Hass Mehdi Ghahremani Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program Journal of Global Education and Research cultural competence experiential learning program design study abroad cultural intelligence scale |
| title | Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| title_full | Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| title_fullStr | Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| title_short | Developing cultural intelligence: Experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| title_sort | developing cultural intelligence experiential interactions in an international internship program |
| topic | cultural competence experiential learning program design study abroad cultural intelligence scale |
| url | https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jger/vol5/iss2/5 |
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