The social and personal context of intercultural learning among secondary school students

Abstract

The present study examines research on the social and personal context of intercultural learning among secondary school students. In our first empirical study, we focused on identifying influences which affect intercultural learning. In the second empirical study, we identified five factors of the social context of intercultural learning: School, Family, Peers, Media, and Reference group. We also identified one factor of the personal context: Motivation–Experience. The factors that appeared to be the most relevant for intercultural learning among secondary school students included Motivation–Experience and Media. Our findings show that it can be expected that Peers, School, Family and Reference group have an interactive effect on intercultural learning. Media act rather independently of the other factors of social context. The relationship between social and personal context exists in two variants: congruence and incongruence. © 2018 Masaryk University Faculty of Arts. All rights reserved