The findings revealed the benefits of international teacher and student exchanges for the development of intercultural competencies, personal development, classroom pedagogy and the design of future exchanges. [...] This short-term research partnership to contract a literature review on the benefits of teacher and student international exchanges is an example of successful research collaboration and partnership between the Association and the Government of Alberta. [...] These tools (logbooks, presentations and reality tests) provided a guided in-depth reflection on the self and the experience abroad, both at the time of the experience and in retrospect. [...] The qualitative results from the reflective questions indicate that the participants began to question their own views of the values and expectations of other cultures and were adjusting their own behaviours to account for those values and behaviours. [...] The researchers employed a framework of PIRATES (personality, identity and relationship experiences in adolescent trajectories) and found, first, that the sojourners presented high stability in their personality through the social network and that the attained mean-level changes in personality and social network size became smaller after the transition.
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