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March 29, 2017
Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education
- Author
- Palfreyman, David, and McBride, Dawn, eds.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- ISBN
- 9780230279674
- Table of Contents
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List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
A Note on Terminology
Transcription Conventions
Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education
Issues
ch. 1 Issues in Multicultural Tertiary Education (D. Palfreyman)
ch. 2 Cross-cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities (G.Apfelthaler, K. Hansen, S. Keuchel, C. Mueller, M. Neubauer, S. Heng Ong, N. Tapachai)
ch. 3 Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK
ch. 4 Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom (N.Y.Collings)
ch. 5 Perception of 'Self and 'Other': Social Boundaries that Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse US Classrooms (S. Ituarte, G. Davies)
ch. 6 Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power (C.Manathunga)
ch. 7 Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers' Assumptions of 'The Asian Learner' (C. Doherty, P. Singh)
ch. 8 Cross-cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: a Critical View of Dialogue(A.Jones, K.Jenkins)
Practice
ch. 9 Practice in the Multicultural Tertiary Classroom (D.L.Mcbride)
ch. 10 One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context (L.Smith)
ch. 11 Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalizing the Curriculum through Students' Interactions (S.Eisenchlas & S.Trevaskes)
ch. 12 Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context ( J.C.Cronjé)
ch. 13 Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: the German 'Wald' and the Canadian 'Forest' (U.Schuetze)
ch. 14 Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking (R.Kristensen, E.Källström & J.A.Svenkerud)
ch. 15 Teaching Bioinformatics: LIsing Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences (N.Palfreyman)
References
Index
Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as well as giving insights into the new global context of higher education. (From the Publisher)