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Intercultural learning
About: Intercultural learning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1019 publications have been published within this topic receiving 17291 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study seeks to determine a definition and appropriate assessment methods of inter-cultural competence as agreed on by a panel of internationally known intercultural scholars, as defined by the authors.
Abstract: This study seeks to determine a definition and appropriate assessment methods of inter-cultural competence as agreed on by a panel of internationally known intercultural scholars. This information ...
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of different theoretical approaches to transfer of knowledge and skill, including recent attempts at reconceptualisation, and argue that this process is not just the transfer of intact knowledge and skills from task to task, but that as evidence increasingly shows in the process of transfer knowledge and contexts are changed.
Abstract: This volume presents the research outcomes of Working Group 2 of Cost Action A11, 'Flexibility, transferability, mobility as targets of vocational education and training'. The group focused on the issue of transfer of learning in vocational education and training and the development of new conceptual tools for the promotion of transformative learning. The book presents an overview of different theoretical approaches to transfer of knowledge and skill, including recent attempts at reconceptualisation. The emphasis is on a perception of learning as boundary crossing between contexts. It is argued that this process is not just the transfer of intact knowledge and skills from task to task or from the school to the workplace, but that as evidence increasingly shows in the process of transfer knowledge and contexts are changed. The chapters are: From transfer to boundary-crossing between school and work as a tool for developing vocational education: an introduction / Terttu Tuomi-Grohn, Yrjo Engestrom and Michael Young. Part one, 'Boundary-crossing as a theoretical basis for research on transfer', contains: Conceptualizing transfer: from standard notions to developmental perspectives / Turttu Tuomi-Grohn and Yrjo Engestrom; Consequential transitions: a developmental view of knowledge propagation through social organizations / King Beach; Transfer and transition in vocational education: some theoretical considerations / David Guile and Michael Young. Part two, 'Learning and transfer in vocational education', contains: Exploration of an industrial enterprise as a method of boundary-crossing in vocational education / Barbel Furstenau; Developing competence during practice periods: the learner's perspective / Johan van der Sanden and Christa Teurlings; Curriculum-embedded mastery learning as a tool for fostering transfer / Frank Achtenhagen; Boundary-crossing in the context of intercultural learning / Susanne Weber; 'Speaking from experience': boundary-crossing within a pre-vocational education programme in Ireland / Gary Granville and Mary Reilly; Developmental transfer as a goal of internship in practical nursing / Terttu Tuomi-Grohn; Promoting developmental transfer in vocational teacher education / Pirjo Lambert. Part three, 'Learning in workplace', contains: Learning in working life: from theory to practice / Petra Angervall and Per-Olof Thang; A model for analyzing knowledge content and processes of learning a trade within alternance vocational training / Annalisa Sannino, Alain Trognon and Lara Dessagne; Workplace learning across activity systems: a case study of sales engineers / Sten R. Ludvigsen, Anton Havnes and Leif Chr. Lahn; Epilogue: from transfer to boundary-crossing / Roger Saljo.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a year-long e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university language learners is reported. But little research exists on whether on-line intercultural collaboration does actually develop learners' understanding of the other culture's perspective and world view.
Abstract: Intercultural learning is often assumed to be an automatic benefit of e-mail exchanges between groups of learners in different countries, but little research exists on whether on-line intercultural collaboration does actually develop learners' understanding of the other culture's perspective and world view. This paper reviews what recent literature suggests intercultural learning to involve and then reports on a year-long e-mail exchange between Spanish and English second year university language learners. Using the results of qualitative research, the paper identifies key characteristics of e-mail exchanges which helped to develop learners' intercultural communicative competence (Byram, 1997). It also outlines elements of e-mail messages which may enable students to develop successful intercultural relationships with their partners.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of international students in the coalmine of international education and discuss the benefits for institutions, supervisors and students of working across and between cultures.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION 'Canaries in the coalmine': International students in Western universities, Dr. Janette Ryan and Ms. Jude Carroll SECTION ONE: CULTURAL MIGRATION AND LEARNING Maximising international students' 'cultural capital', Dr. Janette Ryan and Dr. Susan Hellmundt, Gathering cultural knowledge: Useful or use with care?, Professor Kam Louie, Strategies for becoming more explicit, Ms. Jude Carroll, 'Lightening the load': teaching in English, learning in English, Ms. Jude Carroll SECTION TWO: METHODOLOGIES AND PEDAGOGIES Building intercultural competencies: Implications for academic skills development, Dr. Patricia McLean and Ms. Laurie Ransom, Writing in the International Classroom, Ms. Diane Schmitt, Fostering intercultural learning through multicultural group work, Mr. Glauco deVita, Multicultural groups for discipline-specific tasks: can a new approach be more effective?, Ms Jude Carroll, Improving teaching and learning practices for international students: Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, Dr. Janette Ryan, Postgraduate supervision,Dr. Janette Ryan SECTION THREE :INTERNATIONALISING THE CURRICULUM Internationalisation of curriculum: An institutional approach, Professor Graham Webb, Internationalisation of the curriculum: teaching and learning, Dr. Betty Leask, Postgraduate research: the benefits for institutions, supervisors and students of working across and between cultures, Associate Professor James Sillitoe, Ms. Janis Webb and Ms. Christabel Ming Zhang, Collaborating and co-learning: sharing the message on teaching international students within institutions, Ms Lee Dunn and Ms. Jude Carroll, The student experience: challenges and rewards, Dr. Janette Ryan
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TL;DR: The nature and substance of international learning experiences seem to shift from an added-value side effect to an allpersuasive motive in a market-driven and globalised educational sector as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: International learning experiences seem to shift from an added-value side effect to an all-persuasive motive in a market-driven and globalised educational sector. However, nature and substance of t...
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