A typology of international student community engagement

David Fleischman; Maria Raciti; Meredith A Lawley

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A typology of international student community engagement

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A typology of international student community engagement

David Fleischman, Maria Raciti and Meredith A Lawley

e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.8(1), pp.1-17

2014

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This paper presents an empirical study undertaken to develop a typology of international student community engagement activities that incorporates the perceptions of three key stakeholder groups - the international students, the community and the university. Framed by the notion of value co-creation, our exploratory study was undertaken at a rapidly growing, regional Australian university. Qualitative data was collected via interviews with community members (n = 5) and university staff members (n = 4) and focus groups with international students (N = 22). Our resulting typology comprises three clusters of engagement activity - highly unstructured, semi-structured and highly structured - with two engagement types in each cluster. Thus, the six major types of international student university-community engagement activities are: spontaneous occurrences and daily interactions (highly unstructured), informal social gatherings and casual employment (semi-structured) and formal social organisation participation and professional work experience (highly structured). Our typology offers a useful platform for strategic endeavours related to international student university-community engagement.

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Title: A typology of international student community engagement
Authors: David Fleischman (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Maria Raciti (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Meredith A Lawley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Publication details: e-Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching, Vol.8(1), pp.1-17
Publisher: Australian Business Education Research Association
Date published: 2014
ISSN: 1835-9132
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448636102621
Output Type: Journal article

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