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The Effects of Youth International Exchange Programs on Global Citizenship

Shin InSoon 1 김옥순 2

1수원과학대학교
2수원대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of international exchange programs for children on global citizenship. The study compares two groups of children. One of the groups, which consist of 80 children participating in an international exchange program of UNICEF, was named as the 'Global Camp in Mongol'. The other group, which has 120 children, did not have any types of international exchange programs. Global citizenship has been measured in five domains; universal value of human, respect of diversity, interests in global issues, intention to solve international dispute and orientation to globalism by using a questionnaire. Researchers found many interesting results from the analysis of the data. The first result is that female children in both groups displayed higher scores in the domain of respect of diversity. Second, elementary school children had better scores in the domain of interests in global issues and orientation to globalism than middle school children. Comparing the two groups, it has been found that children who participated in the international exchange program attained higher scores in the domain of respect of diversity, intention to solve international dispute and orientation to globalism. It was also found that children who had been abroad more than one year showed higher scores in the domain of intention to solve international dispute than compared to others. Lastly, it has been discovered that children who participated in the international exchange program showed better scores in every domain than those children who did not participate. On the basis of the results, researchers concluded that more opportunities should be provided to children in order to facilitate the formation of global citizenship.

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