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Youth Academy Cafe: International Youth Voices
Presentation Type
Oral Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Keywords
Students, Foreign--Services for; Students, Foreign--Social conditions;
Abstract
This study applied Creswell (2013) qualitative research method on a world café conversation model program (International Youth Academy Café), to capture international youth voices regarding the challenges international students face as students in USA and the possible strategies to resolve such challenges in higher education settings. Youths (age 18 – 45, with the majority being between 18-35 years) from 20 different countries studying in USA as undergraduate and graduate students participated in the study. Several themes emerged suggesting that LASREF (language, assimilation, support, religion, employment, and finances) is a fundamental precept theory which must be critically analyze by higher education institutions recruiting international youths. This six-factor precept theory was found to be consistent and interlinked with other challenges (transportation, alienation, isolation, and skeptical stereotyped assumptions) that emerged in the discussion. The conversation in this study postulated that institutions should establish strategies which address these challenges before, during and after recruiting international youths, develop avenues/programs to capture youth voices and safely use social media to revealed solutions to student’s challenges as well as better assist in providing a life of meaning to young international students. Future studies are proposed and other implications of the findings are discussed.
Start Date
3-4-2018 1:00 PM
End Date
3-4-2018 4:00 PM
Faculty Advisor
Christopher Edginton
Department
School of Kinesiology, Allied Health, and Human Services
Copyright
©2018 Marie Elomba Adebiyi, Brian Hadley, and Stanley Ebede
Embargo Date
3-30-2018
Youth Academy Cafe: International Youth Voices
This study applied Creswell (2013) qualitative research method on a world café conversation model program (International Youth Academy Café), to capture international youth voices regarding the challenges international students face as students in USA and the possible strategies to resolve such challenges in higher education settings. Youths (age 18 – 45, with the majority being between 18-35 years) from 20 different countries studying in USA as undergraduate and graduate students participated in the study. Several themes emerged suggesting that LASREF (language, assimilation, support, religion, employment, and finances) is a fundamental precept theory which must be critically analyze by higher education institutions recruiting international youths. This six-factor precept theory was found to be consistent and interlinked with other challenges (transportation, alienation, isolation, and skeptical stereotyped assumptions) that emerged in the discussion. The conversation in this study postulated that institutions should establish strategies which address these challenges before, during and after recruiting international youths, develop avenues/programs to capture youth voices and safely use social media to revealed solutions to student’s challenges as well as better assist in providing a life of meaning to young international students. Future studies are proposed and other implications of the findings are discussed.
