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Integration of foreign students into the group of local students
Dvořáková, Klára ; Řezáčová, Vendula (advisor) ; Pašková, Miroslava (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the problem of integration of foreign students amongst home students when studying in a foreign country. The main source besides the literature are data aquired by own reseach work. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with groups of foreign students studying in France (Lyon) and Czech Republic (Prague). In addition the author draws from her own experience gained when studying in France in Erasmus program and during her work for International Club of the Charles University. In the theoretical part the work deals with communication as the basic requirement for successful integration. It examines what influences communication between foreign and home students and from this point of view specific cases are considered. The work describes what posibilities of international studies are offered to the students and gives the list of programs that are offered. The analytical part compares the degree of integration of students amongst home students in both of the mentioned countries. It examines the progress of integration, how integration is percieved by the students themselves, whether integration is considered important by the students and how difficult they consider intergration. The work further depicts the problems which complicate integration and...
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Erasmus Students, Culture Shock and the Process of Adaptation
Hofmannová, Zdena ; Cirklová, Jitka (advisor) ; Hirschová, Marta (referee)
The thesis is focused on culture shock and adaptation of Erasmus students based on a research conducted with Erasmus students at Irish university. The method of the research was biographical interview with nine students participating in Erasmus programme. The research indicated absence of culture shock and adaptation was usually tied to personal changes and challenges that the sojourn brought about. The thesis presents main topics through which the respondents constructed the notion of adaptation - language, academic, practical, social adaptation and adaptation on the absence of relatives, friends and partners. The tendency of each of those dimensions of adaptation is growing until the exams start which disrupts this process. In the next section, the thesis compares the course of the sojourn to rite of passage, dividing it into three main phases - before departure (pre-liminal), during the sojourn (liminal) and after return (post-liminal). Rite of passage is also one of the ways how it is possible to explain the definition of the meaning of the sojourn for the students themselves. Other ways are adventure and development of self and better understanding of self (the concept of existential authenticity is used to explain this fact). The thesis marginally touches the subject of the meaning of culture...
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Erasmus Students, Culture Shock and the Process of Adaptation
Hofmannová, Zdena ; Cirklová, Jitka (advisor) ; Hirschová, Marta (referee)
The thesis is focused on culture shock and adaptation of Erasmus students based on a research conducted with Erasmus students at Irish university. The method of the research was biographical interview with nine students participating in Erasmus programme. The research indicated absence of culture shock and adaptation was usually tied to personal changes and challenges that the sojourn brought about. The thesis presents main topics through which the respondents constructed the notion of adaptation - language, academic, practical, social adaptation and adaptation on the absence of relatives, friends and partners. The tendency of each of those dimensions of adaptation is growing until the exams start which disrupts this process. In the next section, the thesis compares the course of the sojourn to rite of passage, dividing it into three main phases - before departure (pre-liminal), during the sojourn (liminal) and after return (post-liminal). Rite of passage is also one of the ways how it is possible to explain the definition of the meaning of the sojourn for the students themselves. Other ways are adventure and development of self and better understanding of self (the concept of existential authenticity is used to explain this fact). The thesis marginally touches the subject of the meaning of culture...
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Integration of foreign students into the group of local students
Dvořáková, Klára ; Řezáčová, Vendula (advisor) ; Pašková, Miroslava (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the problem of integration of foreign students amongst home students when studying in a foreign country. The main source besides the literature are data aquired by own reseach work. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with groups of foreign students studying in France (Lyon) and Czech Republic (Prague). In addition the author draws from her own experience gained when studying in France in Erasmus program and during her work for International Club of the Charles University. In the theoretical part the work deals with communication as the basic requirement for successful integration. It examines what influences communication between foreign and home students and from this point of view specific cases are considered. The work describes what posibilities of international studies are offered to the students and gives the list of programs that are offered. The analytical part compares the degree of integration of students amongst home students in both of the mentioned countries. It examines the progress of integration, how integration is percieved by the students themselves, whether integration is considered important by the students and how difficult they consider intergration. The work further depicts the problems which complicate integration and...
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The use of intercultural training for VŠE exchange students before leaving the university to study abroad
Kopecká, Ina ; Lukeš, Martin (advisor) ; Nový, Ivan (referee)
The goal of the thesis "The use of intercultural training for VŠE exchange students before leaving the university to study abroad" are: -to capture and to evaluate the change of student's personal characteristics after the arrival from abroad such as language skills, international experience, peer and family relationships and simplicity of establishment of relations - to create a suitable tool for evaluation of intercultural competence of VŠE exchange students who are interested in studying abroad -to bring useful information or to make a structure of intercultural training, which VŠE in the future could use to prepare students for study abroad - to compare two forms of intercultural training: an information meeting, which took place at VŠE with personal participation of students and electronic presentation without personal participation - to create a profile of VŠE students who are interested in studying abroad
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