Value addition to international students' exchange programs through engagement in services
- Title
- Value addition to international students' exchange programs through engagement in services
- Creator
- Joy J.; Singh S.
- Description
- Social responsibility has been an emerging concept in Higher Educational Institutions in India. Promoting social responsibility through international students' exchange programs helps students' capacity to improve their cultural, social and service knowledge to bring about sustainable and meaningful development. This chapter looks at the impact of the interventions of international students in slum communities, especially working with children and women for their academic, health and economic empowerment. This was a qualitative study using a self-structured interview schedule. Data were collected from twenty international students from universities of Norway and the Netherlands who were placed in urban slums for five years and thirty children and women from urban slums of Bangalore who benefitted from this program. A purposive sampling method was used, and the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. This chapter reveals the development of children and women through international students' programs and helps showcase further planning for innovative programs for vulnerable populations. Attitudes of both groups towards cultural differences and the expectation and effectiveness of the exchange program may also be described in this chapter. This chapter intends to help plan international exchange programs from different dimensions benefiting the slum communities for their development and sensitizing cultural differences from different perspectives. 2024 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Source
- Models for Social Responsibility Action by Higher Education Institutions, pp. 117-148.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
- Subject
- Economic empowerment; Education; Exchange students; Health; Social responsibility; Urban slums
- Coverage
- Joy J., Department of Social Work, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Singh S., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bengaluru, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-889113251-1; 979-889113097-5
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Joy J.; Singh S., “Value addition to international students' exchange programs through engagement in services,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18180.