Educating Across Borders, Communicating Among Cultures
Author: Qian Liu
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
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Rethinking Education Across Borders
Author: Uttam Gaulee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9811523991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on critical issues and perspectives concerning globally mobile students, aspects that have grown in importance thanks to major geopolitical, economic, and technological changes around the globe (i.e., in and across major origins and destinations of international students). Over the past few decades, the field of international higher education and scholarship has developed robust areas of research that guide current policy, programs, and pedagogy. However, many of the established narratives and wisdoms that dominate research agendas, scope, and foci have become somewhat ossified and are unable to reflect recent political upheavals and other changes (e.g. the Brexit, Trump era, and Belt and Road Initiative) that have disrupted a number of areas including mobility patterns and recruitment practices, understanding and supporting students, engagement of global mobile students with their local counterparts, and the political economy of international education at large. By re-assessing established issues and perspectives in light of the emerging global/local situations, the contributing authors – all experts on international education – share insights on policies and practices that can help adapt to emerging challenges and opportunities for institutions, scholars, and other stakeholders in international higher education. Including theoretical, empirical, and practitioner-based methods and perspectives provided by scholars from around the world, the book offers a unique and intriguing resource.
Communicating the Other across Cultures
Author: Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2023-11-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0472221396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhenever political and social decisions use categories of identity such as race, religion, social class, or nationality to distinguish groups of people, they risk holding certain groups as inferior and culturally “Other.” When people employ ideologies of imperialism, colonialism, patriarchy, and classism, they position certain groups as superior or ideal/ized people. Such ideological positioning causes nations to take actions that isolate or endanger minoritized populations. This cultural Othering can lead to atrocities such as Native Americans being expelled from their native lands through the Trail of Tears, millions of Ukrainians starving to death during the Holodomor, or millions of Jews exterminated during the Holocaust. Communicating the Other across Cultures uses examples from the United States, Western Europe, and Russia to demonstrate historical patterns of Othering people, as well as how marginalized people fight back against dominant powers that seek to silence or erase them. Deeply ingrained in our society, cultural Othering affects information in history books, children’s education, and the values upheld in our society. By taking a closer look at historical and modern instances of Othering, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager shows examples of how different societies created ideas of social and cultural superiority or inferiority, and how deeply they are ingrained in our current society. In everyday life—the cash in your pocket, the movies shown at your local theater, museum exhibits, or politician's speeches—certain cultural ideologies are consistently upheld, while others are silenced. By exposing the communicative patterns of those in power, Khrebtan-Hörhager then suggests alternative ways of thinking, communicating, and eventually being, that offer transformative solutions for global problems.
Educating Across Borders
Author: María Teresa de la Piedra
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0816538867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducating Across Borders is an ethnography of the learning experiences of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students who live on the U.S.-Mexico border, their lives spanning two countries and two languages. Authors María Teresa de la Piedra, Blanca Araujo, and Alberto Esquinca examine language practices and funds of knowledge these students use as learning resources to navigate through their binational, dual language school experiences. The authors, who themselves live and work on the border, question artificially created cultural and linguistic borders. To explore this issue, they employed participant-observation, focus groups, and individual interviews with teachers, administrators, and staff members to construct rich understandings of the experiences of transfronterizx students. These ethnographic accounts of their daily lives counter entrenched deficit perspectives about transnational learners. Drawing on border theory, immigration and border studies, funds of knowledge, and multimodal literacies, Educating Across Borders is a critical contribution toward the formation of a theory of physical and metaphorical border crossings that ethnic minoritized students in U.S. schools must make as they traverse the educational system.
Education Across Borders
Author: James Fegan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-02-21
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1402094116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights endorsed in 1948 by member states of the United Nations continues to remain very much valid as it provides the solid foundation for most actions and activities that are aimed at guaranteeing the rights of everybody. The rights enunciated in the Declaration are comprehensive and two that are relevant to the content of this book are the right to education and the right to learn. The right to education and the right to learn are known to have been hotly debated by politicians, policy makers, and implementers. Sometimes, the rights in question here have found their way into political parties’ manifestoes, and advocates oftherighttoeducation andtherighttolearnhavebeenquicktobringintojudgment politicians who have not lived up to their promises. Even at that, many member states of the United Nations have taken steps to ensure that access to learning is jealously guarded. For education and lifelong learning remain among the primary forces that can guarantee individual, community and national development, as they had always been from time immemorial. Globally, there has been ample evidence of efforts made by governments to p- mote the widening of access to participation in learning activities. Even so, the literature on the subject of access and participation has not captured suf ciently what has happened across the world in terms of providing access outside national boundaries in the context of globalization and the rapid creation of the knowled- based economies of the 21st century.
Intercultural Communications Across University Settings
Author: Josta Van Rij-Heyligers
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781877371509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS UNIVERSITY SETTINGS - MYTHS AND REALITIES comprises 21 chapters from 26 authors who are researchers, educators and practitioners in the fields of teaching and learning, applied linguistics, English literature, cognitive psychology, and communication skills. Their expertise spans a cross-disciplinary field and their papers show their engagement and dedication to bringing together learning communities across cultural and educational settings. This engagement is of vital importance in a world where different cultures increasingly mix and mingle, and where policies of integration and assimilation no longer meet the requirements of communities and societies. Today, higher education takes place in an environment where its staff and students cross borders both inside and outside their institutions and national boundaries. The ensuing encounters can lead to friction but also provide opportunities for cross-cultural understanding and deeper learning. The development of communication skills and cultural competency is thus fundamental to teaching, as misconceptions and misunderstandings can create obstacles to learning and achievement and negatively influence the total educational experience.
Intercultural Learning in the Classroom
Author: Helmut Fennes
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text has been designed for teachers, head teachers and youth exchange organizers interested in providing an intercultural dimension to secondary school classroom learning. Drawing on the professional intercultural education work of the Council of Europe, the authors emphasize preparation, guidance and assessment of projects and exchanges. Case studies and checklists are included to enable the teacher to work directly from the book, or to use the materials as a supportive resource to curriculum design.
Bridging Language Boundaries - Explorations in Communication across Borders
Author: Thomas Tinnefeld
Publisher: htw saar
Published: 2023-09-26
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 3942949741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an increasingly interconnected world, where distances dwindle and cultures interweave, the role of communication gains renewed significance. Language, our primary form of expression and comprehension, acts both as a border and a bridge for ideas, knowledge, and experiences. Amidst this complex linguistic interplay, this volume finds its purpose. Chapters herein delve into communication surpassing geographic and linguistic boundaries. As language professionals, educators, and researchers, we navigate the challenges of this landscape where languages blend and merge. These chapters analyse and inspire queries that arise whenever linguistic borders are crossed. From exploring the functions of intercomprehension to examining the impact of digital tools on borderless language education, each chapter reveals a facet of the theme. Topics span language methodologies, language acquisition, linguistic landscapes, and the growing importance of technology in teaching, to name but a few. Readers are invited to join us in exploring how communication shapes and is shaped by diverse linguistic environments. Together, we illuminate the threads that determine global interaction, delivering insight into the functioning of language in our interconnected world.
Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom, Second Edition
Author: Andrea DeCapua
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0472036416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA MICHIGAN TEACHER TRAINING title Teachers are often in the forefront of today’s cross-cultural contact, whether in the language classroom or in the K–12 or university/college classroom, but they are not always prepared to handle the various issues that can arise in terms of cross-cultural communication. The intent of this book is to make education in cross-cultural awareness accessible to a broad range of teachers working in a variety of educational settings. Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom attempts to balance theory and practice for pre-service and in-service teachers in general education programs or in ESL/EFL, bilingual, and foreign language teacher training programs, as well as cross-cultural awareness workshops. This book is unique in that it combines theory with a wide range of experiential activities and projects designed to actively engage users in the process of understanding different aspects of cross-cultural awareness. The goals of the book are to help readers: expand cultural awareness of one’s own culture and that of others achieve a deeper understanding of what culture is and the relationship between culture and language acquire the ability to observe behaviors in order to draw conclusions based on observation rather than preconceptions understand and implement observations of cultural similarities and differences develop an attitude of tolerance toward cultural differences and move away from the “single story.” The new edition has been thoroughly updated and includes a Suggested Projects section in each chapter. This section provides opportunities for users of the text to explore in greater depth an area and topic of interest. It also includes even more Critical Incidents--brief descriptions of events that depict some element or elements of cultural differences, miscommunication, or culture clash. Critical Incidents develop users’ ability to analyze and understand how multiple perspectives of the same situation are rooted in differing culturally influenced beliefs, behaviors, norms of interaction, and worldviews.
Crossing Cultures
Author: Adam James Fenton
Publisher: LSPR Institute of Communication & Business
Published: 2020-05-23
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 6239284815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rapid rise of technology, freedom of movement and the boom in mobile communication has connected the world like never before. Cross-cultural communication is now the norm in the worlds of business, politics, and education. Students in all disciplines are likely to study for some period in another country and fresh graduates now roam the world in search of exciting opportunities. But parachuting into an unfamiliar culture represents a myriad of challenges. Misunderstanding verbal and non-verbal communication, unconscious stereotyping, and culture shock can derail what should be a rewarding cross-cultural venture. This book is written by lecturers of intercultural communication from a range of cultural backgrounds, drawing on years of experience to present real-life examples of the challenges and dilemmas presented by intercultural contact. It is also designed as a companion to an undergraduate course of study on intercultural communication and is an ideal preparatory reader for students gearing up for an overseas exchange programme. A student familiar with the concepts and practices described in this book will be much better placed to anticipate, plan for and operate in a new culture, whether for business or study. Complete with hundreds of real-life case studies, strategies, tips, and exercises to reinforce learning, this is your guide-book to confidently cross cultures and achieve your best in a highly connected world.
