dc.contributor.advisor | Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Betsy Palmer | en |
dc.contributor.author | O'Callaghan, Jamie Allison | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-25T18:40:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-25T18:40:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/1969 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Obtaining a global perspective and world-mindedness is an important component to an undergraduate education in today's complex world. While the focus of a college education is to improve a student's breadth of knowledge, so to, is assisting students in their overall development as citizens of the world. Identity development is a key component to undergraduate education in this respect. In order to determine if study abroad is a useful tool in promoting higher levels of identity development in college students, a qualitative study was conducted with 8 undergraduates at Montana State University, Bozeman. Interviews conducted with the participants in this study indicate that study abroad did have a positive affect on the students' identity development. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Identity (Psychology) | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Foreign study | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | College students | en |
dc.title | How a one semester study abroad experience affects an undergraduate college student's identity development | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2006 by Jamie Allison O'Callaghan | en |
thesis.catalog.ckey | 1197151 | en |
thesis.degree.committeemembers | Members, Graduate Committee: Larry Baker; Norman Peterson | en |
thesis.degree.department | Education. | en |
thesis.degree.genre | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.name | M Ed | en |
thesis.format.extentfirstpage | 1 | en |
thesis.format.extentlastpage | 80 | en |
mus.relation.department | Education. | en_US |