Student mobility in the area of Higher Education (HE) is gaining more attention nowadays. It is one of the cornerstones of the Bologna Process being promoted at both national and international levels. However, currently there is no technical system that would support student mobility processes and assist users in authoring educational curricula involving student mobility. In this study, the problem of student mobility programmes generation based on existing modules and programmes is considered. A similar problem is being solved in an Intelligent Tutoring Systems field using Curriculum generation techniques, but the student mobility area has a set of characteristics limiting their application to the considered problem. One of main limiting factors is that mobility programmes should be developed in an environment with heterogeneous regulations. In this environment, various established routines and regulations are used to control different aspects of the educational process. These regulations can be different in different domains and are supported by different authors independently. In this thesis, a novel framework was developed for generation of student mobility programmes in an environment with heterogeneous regulations. Two core technologies that were coherently combined in the framework are hierarchical planning and policy-based management. The policy-based planner was designed as a central engine for the framework. It extends the functionality of existing planning technologies and provides the means to carry out planning in environments with heterogeneous regulations, specified as policies. The policy-based planner enforces the policies during the planning and guarantees that the resultant plan is conformant with all policies applicable to it. The policies can be supported by different authors independently. Using them, policy authors can specify additional constraints on the execution of planning actions and extend the pre-specified task networks. Policies are enforced during the planning in a coordinated manner: situations when a policy can be enforced are defined by its scope, and the outcomes of policy evaluation are processed according to the specially defined procedures. For solving the problem of student mobility programme generation using the policy-based planner, the planning environment describing the student mobility problem area was designed and this problem was formalised as a planning task. Educational processes valid throughout the HE environment were formalised using Hierarchical Task Network planning constructs. Different mobility schemas were encoded as decomposition methods that can be combined to construct complex mobility scenarios satisfying the user requirements. New mobility programmes are developed as detailed educational processes carried out when students study according to these programmes. This provides the means to model their execution in the planning environment and guarantee that all relevant requirements are checked. The postponed policy enforcement mechanism was developed as an extension of the policy-based planner in order to improve the planning performance. In this mechanism, future dead-ends can be detected earlier during the planning using partial policy requests. The partial policy requests and an algorithm for their evaluation were introduced to examine policies for planning actions that should be executed in the future course of planning. The postponed policy enforcement mechanism was applied to the mobility programme generation problem within the descending policy evaluation technique. This technique was designed to optimise the process of programme components selection. Using it, policies for different domains can be evaluated independently in a descending order, gradually limiting the scope for the required component selection. The prototype of student mobility programme generation solution was developed. Two case studies were used to examine the process of student mobility programmes development and to analyse the role of policies in this process. Additionally, four series of experiments were carried out to analyse performance gains of the descending policy evaluation technique in planning environments with different characteristics.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Herbert Souza da Silva.pdf: 647001 bytes, checksum: cd3a4f857d84f004158dcf83243d2ecb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-12 / This work, developed through a qualitative research, with an exploratory approach, discusses the affective dimension in the insertion of foreign students in the university environment from the perspective of Wallon s theory, aiming to identify which feelings and emotions are manifested by foreign students and what extent the role of the environment and of the other influence on the integration process of these students into the university. The work is structured beginning with a discussion on the issue of globalization, noting that the internationalization of education is a necessity to keep up with the global issues and forming individuals capable of acting in this context. Subsequently, we present the extension course of PUC-SP Brazilian Portuguese: Language and Culture, locus of the human subject of the research. Then we discuss the affective dimension in the integration process of foreign student from the theory of Henri Wallon, considering the concepts of the role of the environment and of the other, and the integration of functional sets. The methodology consists of three techniques for data collection: observation conducted with a group of 47 international students at the beginning of the course in 2013, survey applied to 55 foreign students in 2014 and semi-structured interviews conducted with two foreign students. Based on the results presented, it was possible to identify, in this particular context, a diversity of feelings experienced by students, both nice shades as negative shades. It was clear, too, that the role of the environment and of the other influence on the insertion process of foreign student and may offer possibilities for their development as also limitations. The interaction with the environment and with other shows as essential to the transformation of the student, providing their inclusion and the learning process / O presente trabalho, desenvolvido por meio de pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho exploratório, discute a dimensão afetiva na inserção do estudante estrangeiro no ambiente universitário sob o olhar da teoria walloniana, com o objetivo de identificar quais sentimentos e emoções são manifestados pelos estudantes estrangeiros e em que medida o papel do meio e do outro influenciam no processo de inserção desses estudantes na universidade. O caminho traçado para o estudo das teorias iniciou-se com a discussão da questão da globalização, ressaltando que a internacionalização do ensino é uma necessidade para acompanhar as questões globais e formar sujeitos capazes de atuar nesse contexto. Posteriormente, é apresentado o curso de extensão da PUC-SP Português Brasileiro: Língua e Cultura, locus dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Em seguida discute-se a dimensão afetiva no processo de inserção do estudante estrangeiro a partir da teoria de Henri Wallon, considerando os conceitos do papel do meio, do outro e da integração dos conjuntos funcionais. A metodologia adotada consiste em três técnicas de coleta de dados: observação, realizada com uma turma de 47 estudantes estrangeiros no início do curso em 2013; questionário aplicado a 55 estudantes estrangeiros em 2014 e entrevista semiestruturada realizada com duas estudantes estrangeiras. Com base nos resultados apresentados, foi possível identificar, neste contexto específico, uma diversidade de sentimentos vivenciados pelos estudantes, tanto de tonalidades agradáveis como de tonalidades desagradáveis. Ficou claro, também, que o papel do meio e do outro influenciam no processo de inserção do estudante estrangeiro, podendo oferecer possibilidades para o seu desenvolvimento como, também, limitações. A interação com o meio e com outro se revela como essencial para a transformação do estudante, favorecendo sua inserção e o processo de aprendizagem

Submitted by Fernando Souza (fernandoafsou@gmail.com) on 2017-08-31T17:08:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1105124 bytes, checksum: 995bd0cdd9004c9288f853484e978d1f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Fernando Souza (fernandoafsou@gmail.com) on 2017-08-31T17:49:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1105124 bytes, checksum: 995bd0cdd9004c9288f853484e978d1f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-31T17:49:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1105124 bytes, checksum: 995bd0cdd9004c9288f853484e978d1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-14 / The present research aims to analyze the implementation and functioning of the Sandwich Program Abroad (PDSE) of the Federal University of Paraíba. It also intends to investigate the scholarship holders' perceptions of the contributions, difficulties and/or facilities found during the Program in the institution, as well as their perception of the internationalization process in the UFPB. The theoretical foundation is based on university discussions and the process of internationalization of higher education. This is a qualitative approach to case-study research, with descriptive and exploratory characteristics. For its accomplishment and data collection, the following technical procedures were used: bibliographic review, analysis of documents and structured online questionnaires performed by Google Docs – forms, sent by e-mail to the doctoral fellows. Data analysis was performed using the content analysis developed by Laurence Bardin. The results indicated that from January 2014 to December 2015 period, the UFPB postgraduate program sent 45 doctoral students abroad through the Sandwich Doctoral Program. According to the large areas of knowledge determined by CAPES, 50% of them are concentrated in Applied Social Sciences, Human Sciences and Health Sciences areas. The other 50% are distributed in the remaining areas. In the perception of scholarship holders, the main contributions of their sandwich internship abroad is the expansion of the analysis capacity of research objects, interaction with another culture and expansion of the world view. In addition, the internationalization of higher education is an opportunity to integrate produced knowledge from several countries and research cooperation between centers all over the world. The data also indicated that the PDSE contributes, even timidly, to the internationalization process of the UFPB. / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar o processo de implantação e funcionamento do Programa de Doutorado Sanduíche no Exterior (PDSE) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Pretende também investigar a percepção dos doutorandos bolsistas sobre as contribuições, dificuldades e/ou facilidades encontradas diante do funcionamento do Programa na instituição, bem como sua percepção sobre o processo de internacionalização na UFPB. A fundamentação teórica está alicerçada em discussões sobre Universidade e o processo de internacionalização da educação superior. Trata-se de uma abordagem qualitativa da pesquisa do tipo estudo de caso, com características descritivas e exploratórias. Para sua realização e coleta de dados foram utilizados como procedimentos técnicos a revisão bibliográfica, a análise de documentos e questionários estruturados na ferramenta online Google Docs – formulários, enviados por e-mail aos doutorandos bolsistas. A análise dos dados foi realizada mediante a análise de conteúdo desenvolvida por Laurence Bardin. Os resultados indicaram que no período de janeiro de 2014 a dezembro de 2015 a pósgraduação da UFPB enviou ao exterior, através do Programa Doutorado Sanduíche, 45 doutorandos. Destes, de acordo com as grandes áreas do conhecimento determinadas pela CAPES, 50% se concentra nas áreas de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Ciências Humanas e Ciências da Saúde. Os outros 50% se distribuem nas demais áreas. Na percepção dos doutorandos bolsistas, as principais contribuições do seu estágio sanduíche no exterior estão associadas à ampliação da capacidade de análise dos objetos de pesquisa, interação com outra cultura e ampliação da visão de mundo. Além disso, a internacionalização da educação superior é uma oportunidade de integração de conhecimentos produzidos em diversos países e de cooperação entre centros de pesquisa do mundo inteiro. Os dados indicaram também que o PDSE tem contribuído para o processo de internacionalização da UFPB.

Student mobility in the Caribbean, especially the Dutch Caribbean, is under researched. Therefore, this thesis seeks to fill this gap by studying the student mobility of Aruban students atthe University of Aruba. In this present study, Bourdieu’s sociological concepts of habitus, fieldand capital will aid in examining how the economic, social and cultural capital of Aruban students influences their student mobility through the Erasmus + program offered by the University of Aruba. To study this, a multi-method approach was used, namely the text analysis of the University website and policy documents, and an online survey. A multi-method approach will aid in delivering a complete picture of the expectations of the University of Aruba has fortheir students, as well as the lived experiences of the Aruban students. This study suggests that all forms of capital play an influential role in the Aruban student’s mobility. Economic capital plays a crucial role in their choice to move abroad and their motive to do so. Their social assets positively influence their mobility as well as their experiences abroad. Lastly, students’ cultural resources play an influential role in their choice, their expectations, and experiences, however it can also be a crucial barrier to their mobility. While the university promotes equal opportunities, these results indicate otherwise and might suggest that the university revise their selection process to offer students from all opportunities genuineequal opportunities.

Thesis advisor: Hans de Wit / Thesis advisor: Gerardo L. Blanco / Today’s global knowledge economy has become complex, dynamic, and competitive. In this environment, the talented workforce is increasingly diverse, educated, and mobile. International talents tend to migrate to anglophone countries and contribute to technological innovation, scientific discoveries, and economic growth. The largest international student population in the top destination countries comes from Asia. At the same time, research has shown that Asian international students reported lower satisfaction and higher adjustment challenges due to linguistic and cultural barriers, negatively impacting their learning and living experiences. This dissertation aims to understand and explain the transnational transition process through a subset of the Asian international student population. Thirty-five current university student interviewees are purposefully selected. They are graduates of the “International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme,” a rigorous education pathway program popular in Asia for families to prepare their children for Western higher education. Asian International Baccalaureate (IB) alums, who received education in linguistically and culturally diverse settings, offered more nuanced and complex answers to what traditional literature has indicated about international student transitions and experiences. A Successful International University Transition Model is generated from the grounded theory analysis. This model illustrates the causal and intervening conditions that impact international transitions, with the central tasks of being a university student and becoming an adult. Further, the results are discussed with Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus/practice to explain the heterogeneity in the process amongst the diverse international student population. Lastly, recommendations to stakeholders suggest ways to support globally mobile young adults in their transition and development journey. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

The aim of the present study was to establish the effects on the Zimbabwean higher educational system of student migration into South Africa for higher education. The study was motivated by the rising number of Zimbabwean students migrating to South Africa for that purpose, aided in doing so by their schools and other organisations. Rising migration rates are substantiated not only by the growing number of students departing the country for a foreign university, but by the parents who support their going and the administrators and lecturers in Zimbabwean universities who witness migration‟s impacts on the nation‟s higher education. A qualitative research design was employed for data collection. A review was first conducted of the empirical evidence of student migration rates. Data were collected through conversations and interviews, the interview-guide approach, and recorded cell-phone interviews. The qualitative research design was motivated by grounded theory, narrative qualitative inquiry, interim analysis and interpretive epistemology. These approaches jointly ensured that the data would be most suitable for the study‟s intensions. The study investigated the international and local factors contributing to the out-migration of Zimbabwean students in general and, in particular, into South African higher educational institutions. Interviewees reported that migration was motivated mainly by the condition of the Zimbabwean economy. Findings also clarified the effects of the migration process on the educational system in Zimbabwe. Those effects emerge as challenges that must be addressed in the Zimbabwean higher education system. Policy recommendations for addressing such challenges are provided. / Educational Management and Leadership / D. Ed. (Education Management)

La migration internationale d’étudiants est un investissement couteux pour les familles dans beaucoup de pays en voie de développement. Cependant, cet investissement est susceptible de générer des bénéfices financiers et sociaux relativement importants aux investisseurs, tout autant que des externalités pour d’autres membres de la famille. Cette thèse s’intéresse à deux aspects importants de la migration des étudiants internationaux : (i) Qui part? Quels sont les déterminants de la probabilité de migration? (ii) Qui paie? Comment la famille s’organise-t-elle pour couvrir les frais de la migration? (iii) Qui y gagne? Ce flux migratoire est-il au bénéfice du pays d’origine? Entreprendre une telle étude met le chercheur en face de défis importants, notamment, l’absence de données complètes et fiables; la dispersion géographique des étudiants migrants en étant la cause première. La première contribution importante de ce travail est le développement d’une méthode de sondage en « boule de neige » pour des populations difficiles à atteindre, ainsi que d’estimateurs corrigeant les possibles biais de sélection. A partir de cette méthodologie, j’ai collecté des données incluant simultanément des étudiants migrants et non-migrants du Cameroun en utilisant une plateforme internet. Un second défi relativement bien documenté est la présence d’endogénéité du choix d’éducation. Nous tirons avantage des récents développements théoriques dans le traitement des problèmes d’identification dans les modèles de choix discrets pour résoudre cette difficulté, tout en conservant la simplicité des hypothèses nécessaires. Ce travail constitue l’une des premières applications de cette méthodologie à des questions de développement. Le premier chapitre de la thèse étudie la décision prise par la famille d’investir dans la migration étudiante. Il propose un modèle structurel empirique de choix discret qui reflète à la fois le rendement brut de la migration et la contrainte budgétaire liée au problème de choix des agents. Nos résultats démontrent que le choix du niveau final d’éducation, les résultats académiques et l’aide de la famille sont des déterminants importants de la probabilité d’émigrer, au contraire du genre qui ne semble pas affecter très significativement la décision familiale. Le second chapitre s’efforce de comprendre comment les agents décident de leur participation à la décision de migration et comment la famille partage les profits et décourage le phénomène de « passagers clandestins ». D’autres résultats dans la littérature sur l’identification partielle nous permettent de considérer des comportements stratégiques au sein de l’unité familiale. Les premières estimations suggèrent que le modèle « unitaire », où un agent représentatif maximise l’utilité familiale ne convient qu’aux familles composées des parents et de l’enfant. Les aidants extérieurs subissent un cout strictement positif pour leur participation, ce qui décourage leur implication. Les obligations familiales et sociales semblent expliquer les cas de participation d’un aidant, mieux qu’un possible altruisme de ces derniers. Finalement, le troisième chapitre présente le cadre théorique plus général dans lequel s’imbriquent les modèles développés dans les précédents chapitres. Les méthodes d’identification et d’inférence présentées sont spécialisées aux jeux finis avec information complète. Avec mes co-auteurs, nous proposons notamment une procédure combinatoire pour une implémentation efficace du bootstrap aux fins d’inférences dans les modèles cités ci-dessus. Nous en faisons une application sur les déterminants du choix familial de soins à long terme pour des parents âgés. / International migration of students is a costly investment for family units in many developing countries. However, it might yield substantial financial and social return for the investors, as well as externalities for other family members. Furthermore, when these family decisions aggregate at the country-level, they affect the stock of human capital available to the origin country. This thesis addresses primarily two aspects of international student migration: (i) Who goes? What are the determinants of the probability of migration? (ii) Who pays? How does the family organize to bear the cost of the migration? Engaging in this study, one faces the challenge of data limitation, a direct consequence of the geographical dispersion of the population of interest. The first important contribution of this work is to provide a new snowball sampling methodology for hard-to-reach population, along with estimators to correct selection-biases. I collected data which include both migrant and non-migrant students from Cameroon, using an online-platform. A second challenge is the well-documented problem of endogeneity of the educational attainment. I take advantage of recent advances in the treatment of identification problems in discrete choice models to solve this issue while keeping assumptions at a low level. In particular, validity of the partial identification methodology does not rest on the existence of an instrument. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first empirical application of this methodology to development related issues. The first chapter studies the decision made by a family to invest in student. I propose an empirical structural decision model which reflects the importance of both the return of the investment and the budgetary constraint in agent choices. Our results show that the choice of level of education, the help of the family and academic results in secondary school are significant determinant of the probability to migrate, unlike the gender which does not seem to play any role in the family decision. The objective of the second chapter is to understand how agents decide to be part of the migration project and how the family organizes itself to share profits and discourage free riding-behavior. Further results on partial identification for games of incomplete information allow us to consider strategic behavior of family. My estimation suggests that models with a representative individual suit only families which consist of parent and child, but are rejected when a significant extended family member is introduced. Helpers incur a non-zero cost of participation that discourages involvement in the migration process. Kinship obligations and not altruism appears as the main reason of participation. Finally, the third chapter presents the more general theoretical framework in which my models are imbedded. The method presented is specialized to infinite games of complete information, but is of interest for application to the empirical analysis of instrumental variable models of discrete choice (Chapter 1), cooperative and non-cooperative games (Chapter 2), as well as revealed preference analysis. With my co-authors, we propose an efficient combinatorial bootstrap procedure for inference in games of complete information that runs in linear computing time and an application to the determinants of long term elderly care choices.

The aim of the present study was to establish the effects on the Zimbabwean higher educational system of student migration into South Africa for higher education. The study was motivated by the rising number of Zimbabwean students migrating to South Africa for that purpose, aided in doing so by their schools and other organisations. Rising migration rates are substantiated not only by the growing number of students departing the country for a foreign university, but by the parents who support their going and the administrators and lecturers in Zimbabwean universities who witness migration‟s impacts on the nation‟s higher education. A qualitative research design was employed for data collection. A review was first conducted of the empirical evidence of student migration rates. Data were collected through conversations and interviews, the interview-guide approach, and recorded cell-phone interviews. The qualitative research design was motivated by grounded theory, narrative qualitative inquiry, interim analysis and interpretive epistemology. These approaches jointly ensured that the data would be most suitable for the study‟s intensions. The study investigated the international and local factors contributing to the out-migration of Zimbabwean students in general and, in particular, into South African higher educational institutions. Interviewees reported that migration was motivated mainly by the condition of the Zimbabwean economy. Findings also clarified the effects of the migration process on the educational system in Zimbabwe. Those effects emerge as challenges that must be addressed in the Zimbabwean higher education system. Policy recommendations for addressing such challenges are provided. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

O presente estudo tem por objetivo identificar, analisar e comparar as representações culturais de estudantes brasileiros em mobilidade estudantil sobre a França: antes e depois dos primeiros seis meses da experiência de intercâmbio no país estrangeiro. A pesquisa foi realizada com um grupo de estudantes da Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (Poli-USP), selecionados para realizar o programa de Duplo Diploma em uma instituição de ensino superior na França e que fizeram o Curso de Francês para Iniciantes (CFI), módulo Mobilité France, oferecido pelo Centro Interdepartamental de Línguas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. O referencial teórico desta pesquisa baseia-se nos conceitos de representações sociais e culturais presentes em Moscovici (1990) e Jodelet (1990), também retomados por Seca (2003) e Castellotti & Moore (2002), que trazem a definição de estereótipo. Relações entre língua e cultura, e abordagem intercultural no contexto de ensino-aprendizagem de Francês Língua Estrangeira (FLE) são temas apresentados e discutidos com base em Abdallah-Pretceille (2005), Castellotti & Moore (2002), Windmüller (2011), Puren (2005), Cuq (2003), De Carlo (1998), Beacco (2000). A metodologia de pesquisa é qualitativa e consiste em uma coleta inicial de informações sobre o contexto e a demanda atual para a internacionalização, seguida pela coleta de dados por meio de pré-teste, entrevistas semiestruturadas e questionários com os alunos do grupo participante da pesquisa e, por fim, pela análise de conteúdo dos dados obtidos. Pretende-se, com isso: 1) identificar e comparar as representações culturais dos participantes; 2) discutir os impactos da experiência de intercâmbio na formação desses estudantes; 3) fornecer dados de reflexão para a preparação linguística e cultural de estudantes que almejam participar de um programa de mobilidade internacional universitária na França. / This study aims to identify, analyze and compare the cultural representations of Brazilian students in student mobility over France: before and after the first six months of the experience of exchange in the foreign country. The survey was conducted with a group of students from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Poli-USP), selected to perform the Double Degree program at an institution of higher education in France and who have taken the French for Beginners Course (CFI), France Mobility module, offered by the Language Centre of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences. This research theoretical framework is based on the concepts of social and cultural representations, presented by Moscovici (1990) and Jodelet (1990), also taken up by Seca (2003) and Castellotti & Moore (2002), which brings up the notion of stereotype. Relations between language and culture, and intercultural approach in the teaching and learning context of French as Foreign Language (FLE) are themes presented and discussed based on Abdallah-Pretceille (2005), Castellotti & Moore (2002), Windmüller (2011), Puren (2005), Cuq (2003), De Carlo (1998), Beacco (2000). The research methodology is qualitative and consists of an initial collection of information about the context and the current demand for internationalization, followed by collecting data through pre-test, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires with the students of the participating group research, and finally the content analysis of the data. The aims are these: 1) identify and compare the cultural representations of the participants; 2) discuss the impact of the experience of exchange in these students education; 3) provide reflection data for linguistic and cultural preparation of students who aim to join a university international mobility program in France.

Essa pesquisa tem por objetivos acompanhar e analisar, à luz dos Estudos Interculturais de linha francesa, o processo inicial de adaptação de um grupo de estudantes brasileiros em viagem de estudos à França, bem como discutir a formação suscetível de facilitar o desenvolvimento de uma competência intercultural. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são alunos da Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, participantes do Programa de Duplo Diploma com as Grandes Ecoles francesas no período de 2006-2008. A metodologia de trabalho empregada é de caráter qualitativo-descritivo e a interpretação dos dados obtidos por meio de questionários escritos aplicados ao grupo foi realizada segundo a proposta de avaliação do capital de mobilidade de Murphy-Lejeune (2003). Os resultados manifestados sob a forma de reflexões decorrentes de nossa análise visam não apenas tornar mais visível o tema da mobilidade estudantil, ainda tão pouco estudado no Brasil, como também contribuir para a formação de professores e a criação de programas de Língua Estrangeira que preparam grupos de estudantes para experiências de mobilidade no exterior. / The objectives of this study are to use the French line of Intercultural Studies to follow up on and analize the initial adaptation process of a group of Brazilians studying in France, as well as to discuss the formation which will facilitate the development of some intercultural competence. The study subjects are students of the Escola Politécnica of Universidade de São Paulo participating in the Duplo Diploma (Double Diploma) Program in the French Grandes Ecoles from 2006 to 2008. The work metodology used is qualitative-descriptional and the data, acquired by means of questionnaires, was interpreted as per Murphy-Lejeunes evaluation of mobility capital (2003). The results, in the form of reflexions of our analysis, have as objective not only to focus attention into student mobility, a field of study still to be explore, but also to contribute to the formation of facilitators and the formulation of Foreign Language programs, which will prepare groups of students to mobility experience in other countries.