Universal Journal of Educational Research Vol. 11(3), pp. 47 - 56
DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2023.110302
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Influence of Participation in Mobility Programmes on Students' Intercultural Competence Development

Vlaho Kovacevic ^1,*, Marko Pleslic ², Marin Spetic ^3
1 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, 21000, Croatia
² Department of Primary Education, Ivan Filipovic School, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia
³ Department of Social Research, NGO for Youth Work OIP Posejdon, Split, 21000, Croatia

ABSTRACT

This paper begins with a presumption that participation in the ERASMUS+ mobility programmes in higher education is a factor in developing intercultural competence among students. The key question is not whether people should exist without belonging to a specific cultural community, but how they can live with their cultural others while also belonging to their own culture. In accordance with this, the goal of this paper is to identify if participating in long-term student exchange mobility programmes effects a stronger development of intercultural competence among students. The paper discusses findings of a quantitative research conducted using a survey as the main research method. The results do not show that there will be a significant difference in the level of development of intercultural competence between students who participated and students who did not participate in the ERASMUS+ mobility programme, except in a smaller number of indicators. Therefore, this paper will showcase these results while comparing the findings with similar research for the purpose of exploring methodological challenges for evaluating the impact of new educational approaches and trends.

KEYWORDS
ERASMUS, Globalisation, Interculturalism, Intercultural Education

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Vlaho Kovacevic , Marko Pleslic , Marin Spetic , "Influence of Participation in Mobility Programmes on Students' Intercultural Competence Development," Universal Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 47 - 56, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2023.110302.

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Vlaho Kovacevic , Marko Pleslic , Marin Spetic (2023). Influence of Participation in Mobility Programmes on Students' Intercultural Competence Development. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 11(3), 47 - 56. DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2023.110302.