International students involvement with preparations: Pre-departure coping strategies implemented by Mexican postgraduate students in the UK |
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Institution: | 1. Beit Berl College, Israel;2. Beit Berl Academic College, Israel;1. University of Texas at Austin, 1912 Speedway Ste. D5000, Austin, TX, 78712, United States;1. University of Canterbury, New Zealand;2. ERCOMER, Utrecht University, the Netherlands;1. Child Health and Parenting (CHAP), Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;2. School of Education, Health and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Based on findings from a qualitative case study focused on Mexican postgraduate international students at a prestigious university in the south of England, this article explores the coping strategies implemented by the participants prior to departing to their study abroad experience. Findings revealed varying degrees of involvement with pre-arrival preparations where some participants employed a series of creative tactics to ease their adaptation upon arrival, and some others who did not envision any strategies to prepare. However, as afterthoughts, the latter group of students realised such omission had hindered their transition to the new culture. This led to the conceptualisation of the studying abroad experience as a dynamic process enhancing the perspective of the international student as an active agent of their process of adaptation Ward et al., 2001). |
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Keywords: | Pre-departure stage Preparedness Coping strategies International students involvement Mexican postgraduate students UK context |
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