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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

The Wabash Center

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Author
Palfreyman, David, and McBride, Dawn, eds.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan, New York
ISBN
9780230279674
Table of Contents
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)