Moodle importation files - After Mobility: Module 12 - Reverse culture shock
Module 12 Reverse culture shock
Recognize the symptoms of reverse culture shock, and use the technique of storytelling to help manage a successful re entry.
- Step 1: A new ‘Home’
- Step 2: Recognising feelings of reverse culture shock
- Step 3: How to cope with Reverse Culture Shock
- Step 4: Communicating about the added value of your experience
- Step 5: Capitalise on the experience for your future career
- Step 6: Using Storytelling for a transformative experience
Keywords
- Reverse Culture Shock: Re-integrating into your home town
- Hero's Journey: The adventure you embrace when on mobility
- Ordinary World: The normal life before mobility
- Adventure: Your time abroad
- Trials: The challenges you face during mobility
- Crisis: The darkest hour during your mobility
- Treasure: The memorable moments and your victories on the challenges
- Resolution: Born anew with new experiences
Catalogue
Module 12 Reverse culture shock
- SECTION 1 -Reverse Culture Shock - A New "Home"
- This section will provide the definition of Reverse Culture Shock, which is often underestimated. When coming back from a study abroad experience, you have to adapt to a new concept of home.
- SECTION 2 -A Solution with Storytelling - Communicate the Added Value of Study Abroad
- This section will provide a solution to the difficulties you can experience when coming back home: storytelling. After reflecting, share your story with others in order to communicate the added value of study abroad.
- SECTION 3 -A Hero's Journey and its Steps
- This section will introduce the Hero's Journey narrative pattern. A study abroad experience and the different phases you go through can be compared using this theoretical model.
- SECTION 4 - A New Ordinary Life
- This section will teach you how to translate the "treasure" acquired during your study abroad period into new knowledge, skills and attitudes which can help you find a job.
- SECTION 5 -Ambassadors
- This section will show you some videos of other students who have come back after an experience abroad.
- SECTION 6 -Resources
- Here are links to resources that you can use to deepen your knowledge of the subjects covered in this capsule.