Refworks Format

A1 Doring, Nicola A2 Lahmar, Kamel A2 Bou abdallah, Mohamed A2 Bou afia, Mohamed A2 Bouzid, Djamel A2 Gobsch, Gerhard A2 Runge, Erich AB Academic exchange programs provide students and teachers with the opportunity to study or work temporarily at educational institutions abroad. For exchange programs to be successful in promoting intercultural education, they must be designed with their participants in mind. The present study constitutes an investigation of attitudes and expectations of students and teachers with respect to a German-Algerian university exchange program. Germany and Algeria belong to separate cultural spheres--the Western/European and the Arabic/Islamic--and almost no academic exchange has taken place between them to date. The survey's four participant groups were German (n = 270) and Algerian students (n = 214), and German (n = 24) and Algerian teachers (n = 43). The study revealed large differences in the hopes and fears that German and Algerian university students and teachers attach to reciprocal academic exchange. The study's ramifications for the future planning of a German-Algerian university exchange program are discussed. (ERIC: As Provided) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID 22673 OP pp. 240-258 PB Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 2010 PP Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 2010 SN 10283153 T1 German-Algerian university exchange from the perspective of students and teachers : results of an intercultural survey [Article] YR Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 2010