The Institut Paul Bocuse, Worldwide Alliance, Intercultural Learning and Creativity
Ceder, Jani (2016)
Ceder, Jani
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605208788
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605208788
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The Institut Paul Bocuse and Worldwide Alliance’s partner schools bring together students from 15 countries and 5 continents. During the four months they spend together at the pro-gram, students share a common objective: learning French cuisine in an intercultural envi-ronment, which offers them the possibility to learn from each other’s cultural background and cooking skills.
The main objective of this thesis is to collect information from former Worldwide Alliance students (alumni) on how they experienced this intercultural learning process and whether it has had an effect in their creative thinking in the culinary field.
Noticing they engaged not only in short but also in long term networking through, e.g. so-cial media, the author grew curious to the idea: does intercultural learning continues after their program and, does this interaction affect their culinary creativity.
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences commissions this thesis and its results are tar-geted for all Worldwide Alliance partner schools and their students.
The author has chosen to use a zipper structure in this thesis, with the theoretical frame-work and the empirical parts being intertwined. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on four main themes: food culture, intercultural learning, networking and creativity.
This thesis uses qualitative research methods; the information and data were collected during a two-month period, from December 2015 to January 2016, through web-based questionnaires and interviews. Furthermore, the author’s own experiences are presented separately on the findings and conclusions section.
The results of this thesis aim to discuss further possibilities of intercultural learning and cul-inary creativity development in students, during and after the Worldwide Alliance program.
Finally, the conclusion of the author is introduced. The results indicate that the process of intercultural learning starts in the Worldwide Alliance, but continues, in a long-term, with the help of social media, e.g. in Facebook and Instagram. Based on the study, the final conclusion is logical, by constantly getting to know different cultures, it gets easier for us to adapt new skills that could lead us to a more creative thinking.
The main objective of this thesis is to collect information from former Worldwide Alliance students (alumni) on how they experienced this intercultural learning process and whether it has had an effect in their creative thinking in the culinary field.
Noticing they engaged not only in short but also in long term networking through, e.g. so-cial media, the author grew curious to the idea: does intercultural learning continues after their program and, does this interaction affect their culinary creativity.
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences commissions this thesis and its results are tar-geted for all Worldwide Alliance partner schools and their students.
The author has chosen to use a zipper structure in this thesis, with the theoretical frame-work and the empirical parts being intertwined. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on four main themes: food culture, intercultural learning, networking and creativity.
This thesis uses qualitative research methods; the information and data were collected during a two-month period, from December 2015 to January 2016, through web-based questionnaires and interviews. Furthermore, the author’s own experiences are presented separately on the findings and conclusions section.
The results of this thesis aim to discuss further possibilities of intercultural learning and cul-inary creativity development in students, during and after the Worldwide Alliance program.
Finally, the conclusion of the author is introduced. The results indicate that the process of intercultural learning starts in the Worldwide Alliance, but continues, in a long-term, with the help of social media, e.g. in Facebook and Instagram. Based on the study, the final conclusion is logical, by constantly getting to know different cultures, it gets easier for us to adapt new skills that could lead us to a more creative thinking.