A comparison of attitudes related to global citizenship between Korean- and US-educated Korean university students

Abstract

This study compared the perceptions of Korean-national university students studying in Korea and in the US regarding global citizenship. The study sample consisted of two distinct groups: students who had received their education exclusively in Korea and students who were born in Korea but had studied in the US since secondary school. By applying latent mean analysis, the study found that the US-educated Koreans had higher levels of trust and national identity, whereas the Koreans had higher levels of social responsibility and participation. The results suggest that university students of the same nationality who experience different social environments may perceive global citizenship in dissimilar ways. For future investigations, we suggest a longitudinally designed experimental study, which may reveal a causal relationship between the social experiences of university students who study abroad and their perceptions of global citizenship. In addition, future investigations should consider how these students are assimilated into and adapt to diverse interactions on multicultural campuses.

School students’ perception, attitudes and skills regarding global citizenship-dataset from Vietnam

“…In the future, the research results of this dataset will provide educational policymakers with insightful information on the situation of global citizenship education in Vietnam [12] , in order to promote its integration into the national curriculum [13] . This will also be a valuable resource for cross-national comparative research on global citizenship [14] . In addition, in-depth analyses of the data can reveal potential factors affecting students’ acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes towards global citizenship, such as demographic features, parental style or school settings.…”