Students abroad. Case Reconstructions on the Biographical Significance of Student Exchange (AWAY)

学生交换对年轻人来说是一次非同寻常的传记经历，其特点是自主性的增强。作为青春期的体验空间，学生交流为拓宽和多样化传记视角打开了可能性。作为青少年走向自主的一步，它需要应对家庭替代的过程和应对分离的经历。研究的重点是那些决定参加为期一年的学生交换的学生。我们感兴趣的是决策过程的动机，在国外停留期间的经历，以及在国外停留后的主观和家庭处理。我们认为，经历植根于环境和家庭影响的相互作用中。通过对学生和家庭的访谈，为本研究提供了实证依据。对学生的访谈在学生交流之前、期间(在线)和之后进行。家庭面谈在交换学生之前和之后进行。数据分析基于Genogrammanalysen和对选定的面试文章的客观解释学序列分析。研究的目的是对学生交换的传记经历有一个经验性的可靠的洞察，并起草基于经验的类型学。

The student exchange represents an extraordinary biographical experience for young people, which can be characterized by an increase in autonomy. As a space of experience for adolescence, the student exchange opens up the possibility of broadening and diversifying biographical perspectives. As an adolescent step towards autonomy, it demands coping with processes of family substitution and coping with the experience of separation.The study focuses on those students who have decided to participate in a one-year student exchange. We are interested in the motives of the decision-making process, the experiences during the stay abroad and the subjective and family processing after the stay abroad. We assume that experiences are embedded in the interplay of milieu and family influences. The empirical basis of the study is provided by interviews with students and families. The interviews with the students are conducted before, during (online) and after the student exchange. The family interviews take place before and after the student exchange. The data analysis is based on ‘Genogrammanalysen’ and on Objective Hermeneutic sequence analyses of selected interview passages.The aim of the study is to gain an empirically sound insight into the biographical experience of the student exchange and to draft empirically based typologies.