Chapter 16 Education, Mobility and Higher Education: Fostering Mutual Knowledge through Peer Feedback
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Abstract
Studying abroad is thought to be conducive to developing intercultural competence (Williams 2005). However, thus far, at least in Europe, the higher education system has struggled to provide students and staff with linguistic, cultural and methodological support to foster intercultural and interlingual communication opportunities generated by exchange programs and students’ international mobility in general (Herzog-Punzenberger et al. 2017). One approach towards supporting interactions between local and international students is the utilization of peer-feedback. In this chapter, we examine the relevance of a peer-feedback program that started in 2012 at Utrecht University and the implications of the individual encounters it generated for both the development of intercultural competence and our understanding of the needs of international students.