SHORT COURSES ABROAD: LEARNINGS OBTAINED BY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN EDUCATION

Academic mobility is a strategy for achieving internationalization and helps to meet the demands of globalization. This paper reports the learning achieved by 31 Mexican students from a professional Master's program in Education, who took a short, one-week course at the University of Salamanca and the University of Coimbra. The method consisted in performing qualitative content analysis of the students' final papers, specifically the reflective sections that were requested. The result allows identifying learning of diverse nature: (1) conceptual, mainly those of the course; (2) procedural, by the planning of the trip; (3) attitudinal, as personal growth, experience of values and reproduction of stereotypes, and (4) socio-affective, by the coexistence. As a conclusion, the relevance and meaning of study trips of this type is established, which, in spite of their brevity, entails substantial learning of diverse nature.