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Abstract
• To assist students in identifying the personal growth inherent in their study abroad experience
• To enhance students’ ‘metacognition’, that is, their capacity to reflect on and modify their own ways of thinking
• To enable students to re-story their learning and transformation through application of the experiential learning cycle
• To incorporate the basic tenets of the experiential learning cycle: experience, reflection, processing and application into students’ behaviour change following their study abroad experience
• To assist students in becoming informed life-long learners by incorporating their newfound knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviours into their personal survival toolkit.