Date: 2020
Type: Article
A reality check for students? : how participating to the Model United Nations influences skills, IR perceptions, and perspectives on future career
Politics, 2020, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 245-261
COTICCHIA, Fabrizio, CALOSSI, Enrico, CICCHI, Lorenzo, A reality check for students? : how participating to the Model United Nations influences skills, IR perceptions, and perspectives on future career, Politics, 2020, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 245-261
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65861
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Despite a growing number of studies on simulations and International Relations (IR), few analyses investigate how participating in a simulation affects students’ perceptions of relevant IR issues. In addition, almost none of the current analyses on role playing and IR investigate how the involvement in a simulation affects students’ views on university enrolment or future career. This article seeks to fill these gaps, addressing how students’ interpretations and expectations change after participating in the Model United Nations (MUN). This article studies how the MUN is perceived as an experience that helps improve personal skills such as language ability, negotiation skills, and knowledge related to IR issues. This article also analyses how perceptions about selected IR issues and views on future university enrolment or future career vary before and after the MUN. The article is based on an original data set from a survey submitted to high school and university students participating to two MUNs held in Spring 2018. This article also employs ordinary least squares (OLS) multivariate regression analysis to test alternative hypotheses.
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First published online: 22 May 2019
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65861
Full-text via DOI: 10.1177/0263395719852238
ISSN: 0263-3957; 1467-9256
Publisher: Sage
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