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Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

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Editors:
  1. David Palfreyman

    1. Centre for Teaching and Learning, Zayed University, Dubai, Arab

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  2. Dawn Lorraine McBride

    1. Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, Canada

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

    1. Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

      • David Palfreyman
      Pages 1-7

  3. Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-14
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    2. Cross-cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities

      • Gerhard Apfelthaler, Katrin Hansen, Stephan Keuchel, Christa Mueller, Martin Neubauer, Siow Heng Ong et al.
      Pages 15-35

    3. Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK

      • Irene C. L. Ng
      Pages 36-54

    4. Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom

      • Natalia Yevgenyevna Collings
      Pages 55-73

    5. Perception of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Social Boundaries that Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse US Classrooms

      • Silvina Ituarte, Garth Davies
      Pages 74-92

    6. Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power

      • Catherine Manathunga
      Pages 93-113

    7. Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers’ Assumptions of ‘The Asian Learner’

      • Catherine Doherty, Parlo Singh
      Pages 114-132

    8. Cross-cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: a Critical View of Dialogue

      • Alison Jones, Kuni Jenkins
      Pages 133-152

  4. Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-157
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    2. One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context

      • Lois Smith
      Pages 158-176

    3. Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalizing the Curriculum through Students’ Interactions

      • Susana Eisenchlas, Susan Trevaskes
      Pages 177-192

    4. Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context

      • Johannes C. Cronjé
      Pages 193-212

    5. Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: the German ‘Wald’ and the Canadian ‘Forest’

      • Ulf Schuetze
      Pages 213-228

    6. Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking

      • Regitze Kristensen, Eija Källström, Julie Ann Svenkerud
      Pages 229-242

    7. Teaching Bioinformatics: Using Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences

      • Niall Palfreyman
      Pages 243-259

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 260-282
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About this book

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.

Reviews

Awarded a Bookstore Book Award by the University of Lethbridge Bookstore

“The twelve chapters of this book take a comprehensive view of diversity in higher education teaching, learning, and assessment. … the author provides substantive and exhaustive bulleted lists in each chapter, a diverse set of highlighted good practice accounts, and a full chapter devoted to higher education teacher development. The book is easy to navigate, written in clear prose … . I would recommend this book highly to teachers and administrators in higher education across the disciplines.” (Joanne Maguire Robinson, Reflective Teaching, 2016)

'This book does highlight the complexities of intercultural teaching and learning and expands the theoretical and practical possibilities. Educators will find most chapters in this book of interest, offering as they do some practical ideas for action, as well as theoretical propositions and sometimes discomforting challenges to our own beliefs and understandings about learning and teaching across cultures in higher education.' - Higher Education Research& Development

'...offers food for thought and action.' - Studies in Higher Education

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Teaching and Learning, Zayed University, Dubai, Arab

    David Palfreyman

  • Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, Canada

    Dawn Lorraine McBride

About the editors

GERHARD APFELTHALER is Chair, Department of International Management, Fachhochschule Joanneum, Austria NATALIA YEVGENYEVNA COLLINGS is Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, USA JOHANNES CRONJÉ is Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa GARTH DAVIES is Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada CATHERINE DOHERTY is Lecturer, Socio-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia SUSANA EISENCHLAS is Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia SILVINA ITUARTE is Assistant Professor, California State University East Bay, USA KUNI JENKINS is Professor, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, New Zealand ALISON JONES is Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand EIJA KÄLLSTRÖM is Assistant Head, Department of Business, Media, and Technology, Arcada, University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland REGITZE KRISTENSEN is Head of Development, Tietgen Business College, Denmark CATHERINE MANATHUNGA is Lecturer in Higher Education, University of Queensland, Australia IRENE C.L. NG is Senior Lecturer, Marketing, University of Exeter, UK NIALL PALFREYMAN is Professor, Systems Biology, Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, Freising, Germany ULF SCHUETZE is Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Canada JULIE ANN SVENKERUD is Associate Professor, Buskerud University College, Norway PARLO SINGH is Head of School, Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia LOIS SMITH is Co-ordinator, Project for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates SUSAN TREVASKES is Australian Research Council Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia

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