INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: TRANSITIONS, BELONGING & SUPPORT

SETTING THE SCENE

•Practitioners and researchers •4 complementary but different presentations•Getting the most from the day:

• Impact on policy and practice• Impact on research • Collaboration/ future sharing of ideas, practice etc.

• Issues of methodology – Dr Mark Holton•Plenary

THE DAY

10.30 Registration and coffee

11.00 Welcome Dr Sue Eccles, Dr Matt Cheeseman

11.00–11.45 Dr Sue Eccles, Marian Mayer, Camila Devis-Rozental

11.45–12.30 Dr Rosalyn Collings

12.30–13.15 Lunch and networking

13.15–14.00 Kate Thomas

14.00–14.45 Dr Mark Holton

14:45–15.15 Coffee

15.15–16.00 Breakouts - sharing good practice / plenary

“Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…”

Students from outside the UK:• Bring different experiences and cultures• Focus is often on integrating them into the UK HE and wider culture• BUT do we miss the richness that they can bring both to the classroom and University wide?

• How can we better understand the habitus and social and cultural capital they bring?• What can we learn about global students’ socio-emotional intelligence?• And what can we do with that knowledge?

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

• Working with undergraduate international students

• On-going research reveals unexpected insights:• Students’ lived experiences prior to and transitioning into UK HE • Shift in habitus?• Socio-emotional intelligence • Inspiring students as co-producers • “Globelonging”

• What we can learn from international students that informs policy and practice for all students in UK HE?

RESEARCHING AND UNDERSTANDING OUR

STUDENTS

CAN YOU DO BIG THINGS ON YOUR OWN?

• Together• Everyone• Achieves• More

IDENTIFYING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT LEARNING

• SUBU• Students in coloured t-shirts •Academic Advisor/Staff• Seminars•Clubs and societies• Student Village/Students Houses

[BARRIERS] HOW TO OVERCOME THEM?

• Visualise the future you want

• Break your goal into small

pieces

• Give yourself a deadline

• Reward progress(Milgram et al., 1998)

POTENTIAL FUTURE RESEARCH

•We have much more to learn •Focus groups •Habitus and social capital •Transformative events

STEFANIA

Sense of belongingFriendshipConfidenceAcademic Experience Preconceptions Expectations

Developing the International induction

InterviewsFeedbackFocus groupsLiterature

“Feels more personal”“Gives us confidence”

“Helps us make friends”“I belong here” “I wouldn’t do

anything different”

Group working/ Integration

Global studentsCooperative

Feedback

Globelonger

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Bourdieu, P., 1998. Practical Reason. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Goleman, D., 1996. Emotional intelligence. London: Arrow books.

Goleman, D., 2007. Social intelligence. London: Arrow books.

Mezirow, J., 1978a. Education for perspective transformation: Women’s re-entry programs in community colleges. New York: Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

Mezirow, J., 1978b. Perspective transformation. Adult Education, 28, 100-110.

Mezirow, J., 1995. Transformation Theory of Adult Learning. In: Welton, M. R. ed. In Defense of the Lifeworld: Critical Perspectives on Adult Learning. Albany: State University of New York Press, 39 - 70.

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Mezirow, J., 1997. Transformative Learning: Theory to Practice. In: Cranton, P., ed. Transformative Learning in Action: Insights from Practice. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 5 -13.

Mezirow, J., 2000. Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress. San Francisco: Jossey Bass

Tinto, V., 1993. Leaving College: Rethinking the causes and cures of student attrition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Global students

Resilience

Attunement

Engagement/Motivation

Situational awareness

Empathy/rapport

Socio-Emotional Intelligence in international students

Albreght 2006; Goleman 1996, 2007