The Intercultural Competence of Military Students in the Context of International Mobility

Matei, Florentina-Lavinia

doi:10.2478/raft-2019-0013

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“…According to those mentioned by us in another study that also included military students, this competence can be the key to integration in various cultures (Matei, 2019;Matei & Lincă, 2019). Deardorff (2006) argued that this competence consists of three main elements: knowledge, skills, and attitudes.…”

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Intercultural Competence: Applications in Military Domain

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Lincă

2021

Land Forces Academy Review

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This study investigates gender differences, differences by years of study, in terms of intercultural competence of military students, before an internship in international mobility. On the other hand, we have also shown that there is a causal relationship between intercultural attitudes and knowledge. The results of our study can be used in the realization of an intercultural competence training program.

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Intercultural Competence: Applications in Military Domain

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Lincă

2021

Land Forces Academy Review

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“…Languages, cultural and social awareness are some of the more frequently referred employability skills enhanced by the Erasmus program (Mattern, 2016). During an international mobility exchange, students face intercultural challenges when interacting with people from different cultures providing the opportunity to enhance their intercultural skills (Matei, 2019). Besides, it has also been suggested that the mobility programme increases students' cosmopolitan orientation, European consciousness and identity (Jacobone & Moro, 2015) and it could also be an excellent way for students to learn more about host countries social and economic reality (Cairns, 2017).…”

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Linking development of skills and perceptions of employability: the case of Erasmus students

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Mosquera

2019

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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There is evidence that perceptions of employability lead to positive results for organizations and individuals alike. The relationship between perceptions of employability and development of skills is, although relevant, an understudied area of research. This study analyses this relationship in a sample of 196 students who participated in the Erasmus program between 2013 and 2017. Using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we analyse how configurations of five types of skills (Career-orientation skills, Adaptability skills, Managerial skills, Personal skills and Teamwork skills) combine to produce perceptions of employability. Results show that, although Erasmus students perceive a positive development in all groups of skills, students perceive a higher development on Adaptability skills. Results also show that there is no single type of skills that can be developed to promote perceptions of employability but, instead, there are two distinct configurational groupings of skills that lead to perceptions of employability: one configuration has two core conditions-Adaptability skills and Teamwork skills-and the other configuration includes three core conditions-Career-orientation skills, Managerial skills and Personal skills. These configurations match the two main motivations for choosing an international exchange as a strategy to enhance employability: pursuing an international career and pursuing distinction from peers.

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“…I started to pay attention to this topic since 2019 when I carried out several studies regarding the importance of intercultural competence for students in the context of international mobility. Two of the studies carried out on this topic targeted military students (Matei, 2019, 2020, Matei, Lincă, 2019. Thus, we identified perceptions and training needs of students, but also the existence of correlations between the components of intercultural competence.…”

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Intercultural Competence – a key competence for higher education

Matei

2022

Journal of Education, Society &Amp; Multiculturalism

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Intercultural competence is an increasingly debated subject, at least in foreign specialized literature, not in the national one, especially in the context of university education where most exchanges of experience take place between universities from various European countries and not only. The purpose of this article is to identify and clarify from a theoretical point of view the concept of intercultural competence and the importance of its formation at the level of university education. The article analyzes aspects and opinions regarding the term intercultural competence and the components that make up this competence. It also presents some of the development models of competence, which have the role of strengthening the characteristics of intercultural competence. The theoretical aspects analyzed regarding intercultural competence demonstrate the importance of this competence and the necessity of its training at the university level, which should arouse the interest of actors in the university system towards a thorough training of intercultural competence for their students and giving it special importance.

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The Intercultural Competence of Military Students in the Context of International Mobility

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Intercultural Competence: Applications in Military Domain

Intercultural Competence: Applications in Military Domain

Linking development of skills and perceptions of employability: the case of Erasmus students

Intercultural Competence – a key competence for higher education

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