Learning and teaching across cultures in higher education /
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
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| Description: | xiv, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6643114 |
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 David Palfreyman
- Part 1. Issues
- Preface to Part 1. Issues in Multicultural Tertiary Education
- 1. Cross-cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities
- 2. Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK
- 3. Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom
- 4. Perception of 'Self and 'Other': Social Boundaries that Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse US Classrooms
- 5. Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power
- 6. Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers' Assumptions of 'The Asian Learner'
- 7. Cross-cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: a Critical View of Dialogue
- Part 2. Practice
- Preface to Part 2. Practice in the Multicultural Tertiary Classroom
- 8. One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context
- 9. Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalizing the Curriculum through Students' Interactions
- 10. Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context
- 11. Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: the German 'Wald' and the Canadian 'Forest'
- 12. Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking
- 13. Teaching Bioinformatics: LIsing Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences
- References
- Index
