Adapting to life in the Gulf: culture shock and challenges confronting foreign teachers in Kuwait
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined the culture shock, fear, and challenges experienced by foreign teachers in Kuwait. A quantitative method was applied, using a survey conducted among 424 foreign teachers from Africa, Asia, USA, Canada, and other Arab countries working in private American, British, and bilingual schools in Kuwait. The findings revealed that prior to their arrival, the participants were apprehensive about homesickness, adapting to a new environment, and high cost of living. Once in Kuwait, they encountered difficulties in socialisation and transportation. In the school environment, the biggest challenge they faced was interaction with local parents, followed by inadequate opportunities for creativity and personal development, and finally, classroom management. Challenges faced by African and Asian teachers were significantly different than those faced by teachers from other locations. Measures to reduce culture shock include thoroughly learning about the host country before arrival, socialising, and keeping an open mind to Kuwaiti culture.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it