Helena Meyer-Knapp

Member of the Faculty- The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA USA

Helena Meyer-Knapp

Entries Tagged as '2. Student Questionnaires'

Introduction – Surveys

June 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on Introduction – Surveys · Introduction - Surveys

Surveys: In all three countries I collected responses to over 250 surveys. The collection process was not based on formal sampling techniques, thus the quantitative analysis indicates the values and attitudes of those particular people not the population as a whole. Surveys reached students at publicly funded and at privately funded institutions and at both […]

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Student Responses — educational and organizational

June 4th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — educational and organizational · Student Responses -- Educational and Organizational

The site visits and the survey findings demonstrate a similar finding in all three countries: school tours take a distinctive form from place to place. At Japanese and Korean sites, students visited in large groups 40 – 100 strong. Japanese students wore school uniforms. Classes and schools followed one another from one segment of the […]

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Student Responses — History, culture, society

June 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — History, culture, society · Student Responses -- History

Students may have varied noticeably among the three nations in the whether or not they talked about peace and war. They were more similar in their increased connections to the history culture and society of the countries they lived in. Korean percentages should be read as approximately double the number showing in the table because […]

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Student Responses — Ecology, Environment and Adventure

May 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student Responses — Ecology, Environment and Adventure · Student Responses -- the Natural Environment

One of the striking features of this research was to discover how often group trips for junior high and high school age students were oriented towards experiencing the outdoors. Once again the trips took a distinctive approach in each country. In Korea, high schoolers went to Jeju Island more than to any other site. The […]

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Student responses to their travels: War and Peace

May 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Student responses to their travels: War and Peace · Student Responses -- War and Peace

The survey results indicate marked differences between the three countries in the degree to which their travels bring issues of war and peace to mind in students. In coding for whether students mentioned peace and war in their comments, I was rigorous about restricting “yes” codes to actual mentions of the two words specifically Japan: […]

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