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Mabuchi, Hitoshi 1955. "Discourses of intercultural education in Japan." Monash University, Faculty of Education, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9052.
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Borg, Axisa Glorianne. "Intercultural education through school geography in Malta." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10041945/.
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Population mobility and globalisation led to social, political and economic challenges globally, raising complex debates related to citizenship, human rights, democracy and education. Intercultural education is a response to the culturally heterogeneous societies. As understood in this study, it is a means to address the inequalities in education systems. It is a commitment to social justice by reducing achievement gaps. The challenge lies in translating this principle into practice within highly structured school systems. This research questions how school geography addresses the principles of intercultural education within the Maltese Islands. Both geography education and intercultural education are concerned to develop themes related to the changing global context. This study tracks if teachers of geography, in their role as ‘curriculum makers’, embrace the underlying principles of intercultural education and ‘powerful disciplinary knowledge’, to address social inequity. ‘Powerful knowledge’ as conceived by Michael Young considers subjects as a resource that enables teachers to take the students beyond their experience to higher forms of thought, to avoid perpetuating current inequalities. This research is a mixed methods case study. The data generation includes a questionnaire, several informal interviews and two focus group discussions with teachers of geography, a documentation review and a research journal. The scenario portrayed by the participating teachers is that of a heavy loaded exam oriented system that does not allow for flexibility, where often teachers cannot engage students with disciplinary knowledge and activities that allow them to think critically and reflect on alternatives. Most of the teachers seek to drive the students to reflect on their context and social equity, but not necessarily through disciplinary knowledge. This reflects teachers’ disposition but points out that unless they are aware of their ‘equity literacy’ and considers disciplinary knowledge as a teaching resource, they risk perpetuating education inequalities.
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Shah-Gordon, Ruta. "Intercultural Competence Development through Civic Engagement." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1468846309.
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Pena-Dix, Beatriz Maria. "Developing intercultural competence in English language teachers : towards building intercultural language education in Colombia." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12619/.
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This research is a qualitative exploratory, constructivist study that aims to investigate Colombian (public sector) English language teachers’ existing or prospective intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to understand their teaching profiles and then to be able to build upon them. To achieve my aims, teachers’ perspectives on culture and interculturality are explored based on the underpinning assumption that there is a need to transform language education in Colombia and move forward from the «cultural turn» to the «intercultural turn». Within this vision of language teaching, teachers can become, in a near future, intercultural mediators who enlarge the objectives of contemporary language teaching to build Third Spaces for dialogue and negotiation through English. This study is motivated by one main research question: how do Colombian English language teachers’ current practices, beliefs, and professional self-concepts relate to an envisaged profile of the intercultural English language teacher? This question is embedded in the research aim of providing a comprehensive understanding of current English language teaching in Colombia, including teachers’ experiences and perspectives on culture and interculturality. While exploring the literature on ICC, insight was gained into how the teaching of languages becomes a natural scenario to develop ICC and the transformed role of the language teacher as an agent of change and pedagogical progress in transnational and global contexts (Crozet, 2017; Guilherme, 2002, 2007; Porto & Byram, 2015; Risager, 2000, 2007; Sercu et al., 2005). The empirical findings show that teachers feel positively disposed to intercultural competence English language teaching (IELT), but their approaches to culture are mainly essentialist and nationalist, based on communicative language teaching (CLT) approaches. Despite efforts and infrequent demonstrations of IELT, their profile does not meet yet the expectations pertaining to the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are desirable for IELT. However, they have a positive disposition to advance towards IELT. Based on these findings, a tripartite model and a statement of philosophy were proposed to help English language teachers move forward towards ICC. Finally, this investigation provides valuable insights into the status quo of ICC and ELT in Colombia and has practical implications for ELT education programmes, teachers and policy makers who are interested in reanalysing ELT in Colombia.
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Frimberger, Katja. "Towards a Brechtian research pedagogy for intercultural education : cultivating intercultural spaces of experiment through drama." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4593/.
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This PhD thesis develops a Brechtian research pedagogy for intercultural education. Taking its lead from progressive intercultural educators and researchers who conceptualise intercultural experiences as being ‘radically embodied’, this thesis is underpinned by a concept of culture as fluid and constantly ‘in the making’. In order to give ethical and pedagogical consideration to such a performative view of culture, Brechtian thinking and theatre practice is employed and translated into the intercultural education research space. Placing Brechtian Verfremdung – ‘estrangement’ - at the heart of methodology, such research pedagogy works from within the precarity of intercultural spaces. Based on an immanent ethics that emerges from and shapes within the relationships built in the research space, the researcher’s role is that of the facilitator and co-producer of data. A Brechtian research pedagogy is thus considered a mode of production; one that does not conceptually presuppose ethics and pedagogy, but considers them as ‘becoming’ and integrated within its methods. It asks two questions i) can a Brechtian informed approach to pedagogy create and change experiences of ‘strangeness’ and ii) if so, how is this achieved and manifested? The focus of this thesis is international students’ dynamic and in flux experiences of strangeness. During four half-day workshops in consecutive weeks, a group of ten international postgraduate students encounter a Brechtian research space, where, using drama, creative writing and filming methods, they engage in an open, embodied conversation on ‘intercultural experiences’. I trace participants’ process of intercultural learning and ‘intercultural making’ through the embodied methods used in the drama research workshops. These embodied methods stimulate a variety of reflective modes and produce multilayered data for analysis: pictures, conversations, creative writing pieces and even non-verbal gestures. In order to prevent an early reification of these ‘texts’ into academic ‘strangeness knowledge’, they are in turn estranged and used in a mode of artistic production. This allows for active thinking about the research question as well as aids reflection on the modes of encounter within the research space. ‘Estrangement’ draws attention not only to the content of intercultural stories used, but to their inherent discursive structures and the effects these can have on participants’ well-being. The research project’s main emphasis, then, is on the process of research and starts to work towards a respective Brechtian representational practice by developing the term ‘dialogic aesthetic framing’. It is suggested that representations should be equally seen as modes of production, dependent on an audience’s active reading between the research’s ‘metaphoric gaps’. Future research would seek to develop this more product-oriented focus further, so as to test and develop concrete artistic, representational practices for a Brechtian research pedagogy.
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Renner, Jasmine, and Yi Lin. "Intercultural Communication Competence and Intercultural Communication Apprehension among Chinese Students Studying in the USA." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3048.
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Wang, Liang. "Internet-mediated intercultural English language education in China's higher education institutions." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530497.
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Al, musaiteer Suliman Saleh. "The Saudi students' experience in intercultural communication." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1439568586.
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Björk, Maria. "Bilingual Intercultural Education in Peru : Opportunities and Challenges." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Lärarutbildningen, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1602.
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Offering basic education is the greatest investment the world can make in its future. Basic education improves live opportunity for people and also give them a chance to form a better life for them selves. Too many of Peru’s inhabitants live in extreme poverty and education could help the country improve this situation. In addition, in the rural areas of Peru a lot of people speak another language than Spanish as their mother tongue. The purpose of this thesis is to get a more profound knowledge about matters concerning Bilingual Intercultural Education in Peru.
The research question has been what issues can be found, involving EBI education in Peru; opportunities and challenges? I have researched this through interviews with people working in the rural areas combined with a literature study. I visited schools in the area of Cusco and Anchonga. In Cusco the school did not have EBI education and in Anchonga the visited school did have. Some of the findings made are that it is important for the people involved such as parents, principals and teachers to be supportive of EBI education to make it work. It is also a challenge to find teachers who know the method and are bilingual. Many schools are in addition dependent of support from non-governmental organizations, which are an opportunity and a challenge. Important is also to make some teachers and parents believe that EBI education is not against the social development of the country.
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Samuel, Joan. "Intercultural competency in English art and design education." Thesis, UCL Institute of Education (IOE), 2009. http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/20589/.
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The enquiry brings a generalist perspective to bear on the culture of art and design education. The disciplinary location is Intercultural Studies and the high modernist, constructivist framework justifies a critique of positivist approaches to research in the cultural field. Selected literary and visual texts are regarded as primary research data and are analysed from competing epistemological positions. The problem addressed IS an apparent neglect of the intercultural dimension of art education in England, and the need for greater attention to, and competency in, this area. English visual culture is featured, exemplified in National Trust properties and other English locations, including some associated with diasporic African Caribbean, South Asian and Jewish communities. Although the National Curriculum requires British citizenship to be addressed, exceptionally for the United Kingdom as a whole, local, English identity is largely ignored. The lack ofthis element of reflexivity is central to the problem. Three, theoretically conflicting, persistent, historiographic narratives explore intercultural competency in English art and art education - and they are each critically examined. Taken together, they demonstrate how extensive and com plex intercultural matters have become at the turn of the twen tieth century. They are supported by investigations of GCSE Art, and other examples of art educational practice identify interstitial dilemmas. It is concluded that art teachers need to become interculturally competent in the contemporary, globalised environment - and that this could be assisted through formal assessment. Proposed benchmarks include: multidimensional contextualisation of art "here and now, then and there"; theoretical rigour in engaging with contrasting narratives and ensuing difficulties; recognising the significance of Englishness within British identity and its integration into intercultural discourse. Proposals are made for change in the higher education of art teachers. The thesis claims to be original: in considering intercultural competency as a subject for assessment, in focusing on English identity, and in its even- handed respect for "traditionalist", "reforming" and "postmodernist" narratives.
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Coats, Cecilia E. "Intercultural awareness education in grades kindergarten through fourth." Scholarly Commons, 2007. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/653.
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This thesis examines how intercultural awareness education can be taught to kindergarten through fourth grade children. The concept of what it means to be interculturally aware and what is needed for teachers to instinct awareness in young students is examined. Literature research and data gathered from teachers through interviews and surveys is used to create a framework for teaching intercultural awareness education. In addition a set of recommendations for instruction and a bibliography for professional development around intercultural education are presented.
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Макаренко, О. Є. "Intercultural Competence of a Teacher and Teacher Education." Thesis, ВВП "Мрія", 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/59457.
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The article is devoted to the importance of interciltural competence of a teacher both at school and university at present as a way to adapt Ukrainian higher institutions to the educational requirements of the pologna process. The article also gives tha targets and the goals of the intercultural competence trainings for teachers.Стаття присвячена важливості міжкультурної компетентності вчителя школи та викладача вищого навчалоного закладу в сучасних умовах освіти як складової адаптації українських навчальних закладів до освітніх вимог Болонського процесу. В статті також наведено цілі та задачі реалізації міжкультурної компетентності для педагогічної освіти.
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Montano, Steffano. "Theoretical Foundations for an Intercultural, Antiracist Theological Education:." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108647.
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Thesis advisor: Hosffman . OspinoCatholic theological education in the United States of America in the year 2019 (and beyond) must confront the realities of racism and ethnocentrism, and understand how racist and ethnocentric epistemologies intrude into the classroom. These epistemologies interfere with the ways that theological educators are able to teach about and through an anthropology of the imago Dei that demands an equitable valuation of people of color, both socially and theologically. Yet a history of a “white savior complex” pervades Catholic theological education in the U.S. and stands in the way of cherishing the theological agency and contributions of people of color. Such a complex can be addressed through the use of antiracist and intercultural pedagogies that allows the scholarship and experiences of people of color, both students and academics, to achieve equitable impact in theological education and that leads all students to reflect on the development of their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. The use of four distinct antiracist and intercultural pedagogical pillars are developed and illustrated through vignettes pulled from the experiences of theological educators teaching about racism and ethnocentrism in Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2019
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Noble, Nicole C. "Intercultural understanding in global education communities : tracing intercultural education in a pre-service teacher training program at the University of Stellenbosch." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3961.
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Thesis (PhD (Education)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.334 leaves single sided printed, preliminary pages i-xiv and numbered pages 1-322. Includes bibliography, abbreviations and list of figures.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT:The world is at a rapid pace being confronted with the need to shift national education policies that reflect basic human rights, with equity and fairness to the forefront. Along side of this herald are demonstrations of active mobilizations on the part of institutions of higher learning to "internationalize" their policies and programs to help to produce global citizens that effectively interact in international settings. As South Africa experiences changing scenes in educational reform government officials, practitioners, and educators face a number of challenges. Particularly, those related to cultural interactions when engaging in activities across the diaspora of school environments. Often these challenges serve as impediments to open communication, understanding and sensitivity amongst diverse cultural groups. As these impediments are faced in classrooms teachers increasingly find themselves at a deficit to adequately host learning environments conducive to its participants. Institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to provide the kind of intercultural dialog that entrenches policies and program curricula that speak to the needs of diverse communities, in particular those preparing future teachers. The research introduces the concept of global education communities to contribute towards shaping the kind of institutions that provide opportunities for students to practice, and become skilled in intercultural understanding. The research also raises serious discussion through the proposal of the elements of intercultural education towards contributive measures to address intercultural education, communication, and training. A case study of a four year pre-service general education training program (BEd GET) at the University Stellenbosch was conducted to trace and examine the presence of intercultural education. Data was collected by means of triangulated document analysis, interviews, and questionnaires. The research looked to a metaphoric analogy using Appreciative Inquiry, power with, and elements of intercultural education. The data was analyzed using qualitative strategies including classification and category construction, with imaginative variation and heuristic inquiry. The findings revealed that themes from intercultural education found expression or appearance in some aspects of the program outcomes, various module offerings, and teacher practice and approaches of the BEd GET curriculum. While the research also revealed that intercultural education does not appear to be a wholly attended pedagogy and practice in the GET program, the findings and interpretations revealed that intercultural education has numerous opportunities for expression and appearance to lay foundations for intercultural practice in theory. Another dimension of the research also revealed that students and lecturers collectively were not familiar with the concept of intercultural education, nor could a distinction between multicultural, and intercultural education be made. Furthermore, students' understandings and feelings reveal some resistance to themes in cultural diversity. The findings seem to reveal a need to incorporate strategies that raise intercultural consciousness. In view of the University of Stellenbosch's plan to internationalize, the findings present critical implications and recommendations toward incorporating intercultural pedagogy and practice into the methodological framework of the BEd General Education program. It finally poses future program and module development with respects to intercultural education and practice through the suggested use of the Hammer and Bennett's (1998, 2002) Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die wereld word teen 'n versnelde tempo gekonfronteer met die noodsaaklikheid om nasionale onderwysbeleid wat menseregte, veral billikheid en regverdigheid, op die voorgrond stel. Saam met hierdie oproep is daar aanduidings van die mobilisering van institusies van hoer opvoeding om hu1le beleid en programme te "internasionaliseer" om burgers te vorm wat effektief met 'n globale wereld kan omgaan. Soos wat Suid-Afiika veranderende situasies ervaar in onderwyshervorming, word amptenare, praktisyns, opvoeders en ander betrokke in onderwysgemeenskappe gekonfronteer met 'n verskeidenheid uitdagings. Veral die verbonde aan kulturele interaksies betrokke by 'n diaspora van skoolomgewings. Die uitdagings dien dikwels as hindernisse vir oop kommunikasie, begrip en sensitiwiteit tussen verskillende kulturele groepe. In besonder wanneer hierdie hindernisse in klaskamers aangedurf word deur onderwysers wat meesal self 'n tekort aan voldoende leerervaring het om leeromgewings in belang van die deelnemers te fasiliteer. Hoeronderwys institusies het 'n verantwoordelikheid om beleid en programkurrikula te voorsien wat interkulturele dialoog verskans wat spreek tot die behoeftes van diverse gemeenskappe, veral die wat voornemende onderwysers voorberei. Die navorsing stel die konsep globale onderwysgemeenskappe voor om by te dra tot die vorming van institusies wat geleenthede skep vir studente om interkulturele begrip te oefen en vaardig daarin te word. Die navorsing stel elemente van interkulturele onderwys voor wat kan dien tot die bevordering van dialogiese betrokkenheid in interkulturele onderwys, kommunikasie en opleiding. 'n Gevallestudie van 'n vierjaar voordiens algemene onderwysprogram (BEd Algemeen) by die Universiteit van Stellenbosch was ondemeem vir spore van en om die voorkoms van interkulturele onderwys in oenskou te neem. Data is versamel deur middel van 'n getrianguleerde dokument analise, onderhoude en vraelyste. Die navorsing kyk na 'n metaforiese analogie waarin waarderende ondersoek, mag-met, en elemente van interkulturele onderwys gebruik is. Vir die analise van die data is kwalitatiewe strategiee gebruik, wat klassifikasie en kategorie konstruksie in kombinasie met verbeeldingsryke variasie en heuristiese ondersoek insluit. Die bevindings toon dat temas van interkulturele onderwys uitdrukking vind of verskyn in aspekte van die programuitkomste, verskillende module aanbiedings, en onderwys praktyke en benaderings van die BEd Algemeen kurrikulum. Terwyl ook bevind is dat interkulturele onderwys nie werklik in die pedagogie en praktyk van die program figureer nie, toon die interpretasie talle geleenthede om interkulturele praktyk te vestig en tot uitdrukking te bring. 'n Ander faset van die navorsing het getoon dat studente en lektore kollektief nie bekend is met die konsep van interkulturele onderwys nie, en dat dit nie onderskei kon word van multikulturele nie. Boonop, het studente se begrip en gevoelens 'n neiging tot verset teenoor temas van kulturele diversiteit getoon. Die bevindinge suggereer 'n behoefte aan die insluiting van strategiee om interkulturele bewussyn te verhoog. In die lig van die Universiteit van Stellenbosch se planne om te internasionaliseer, hou die bevindinge kritiese implikasies en aanbevelings in vir die inkorporasie van interkulturele pedagogie en praktyk in die metodologiese raamwerk van die BEd Algemeen-program. Dit stel die ontwikkeling van modules in interkulturele onderwys en praktyk voor deur die gebruik van Hammer en Bennett se (1998,2002) Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).
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Rosado-May, Francisco Javier. "Intercultural higher education for indigenous Yucatec Maya in Mexico." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112544.
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Mediante una descripción vivencial de la construcción de la Universidad Intercultural Maya de Quintana Roo, este trabajo presenta importantes decisiones tomadas y caminos andados para la implementación de un modelo educativo, intercultural, en un contexto de alto rezago y pobreza de los indígenas mayas en Quintana Roo. Sin descuidar las normas y políticas que aplican a instituciones públicas en México, los esquemas de financiamiento, arreglo institucional y pedagogía intercultural, desarrollados en la UIMQRoo, tomaron en cuenta elementos de aprendizaje/transmisión y de construcción/ innovación de conocimiento que combinan aspectos de la cultura local con la educación convencional. Altos indicadores de retención, titulación, empleabilidad y calidad de los programas educativos, así como opiniones de egresados, alcanzados de febrero 2007 a febrero 2015, hacen pensar que las decisiones condujeron hacia la dirección correcta.This work presents important decisions made during the implementationof the intercultural educational model at the UniversidadIntercultural Maya de Quintana Roo, Mexico, in a context of povertyand conditions of lagging behind the rest of the society of theindigenous Yucatec Maya population. Within the legal frameworkof public universities in Mexico, the financing of projects, thedeveloping of intercultural pedagogy and designing the institutionalsettings, rested on elements that included learning/transmission andconstruction/innovation of knowledge that combined aspects of thelocal culture with conventional education. High figures on indicatorssuch as retention, graduation rate, employability, and quality ofthe academic programs, along with opinions from alumni, achievedduring the period of February 2007 to February 2015, indicate thatthe decisions and actions taken in the beginning of the constructionof the intercultural model at UIMQRoo, were in the right direction.
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Wang, Hui-yu Terence, and 王曉宇. "Intercultural education for the freedom from socio-political terror." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48329939.
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Post-9/11, terrorism is an increasingly common spectacle. Daily, its news has become embedded into the fabric of contemporary life. But as wars fighting terrorism fail to cease the reproduction of such extraordinary violence, what role should education play to expand the freedom from terror? Mired in a perpetual terrorist dialectic, how should citizens of an interdependent world be cultivated?
Particularly novel is the emergence of a pedagogical discourse that holds education as both a cause of and cure for terrorism. Presupposing poverty a main source of discontent and schooling a crucial vehicle to social mobility, governments increasingly employ education to ‘counter’ terrorism. Growing numbers of terrorists are being ‘re-educated’ for de-radicalization and social reintegration. Few studies have focused on the interrelations between education and terrorism; of those that have, the deeper theoretical questions have gone largely unasked. Problematizing the dominant discourses of terrorism and the use of education to combat the hearts and minds of terrorists, this thesis seeks to ground the pedagogical expansion of the freedom from terror on a more robust conceptual framework.
With the aim to reexamine the interrelationship between terrorism and education, and conceptualize how the latter expands the freedom from the former, the methodology is interdisciplinary and ultimately philosophical. Each approach to understanding terrorism, from political economy to history to sociology, is briefly adopted before being undermined by the next. Through such a Socratic method, each discourse is betrayed by the exposition of internal contradictions and conceptual inadequacies. Because the scientific method fails to address questions concerning what terrorism is, who terrorists are, why the freedom from terror is justifiable, and how education can expand such freedom, the use of philosophical critique and reasoning is essential to conceptualizing pedagogical answers to the problem of terror.
Paradoxical and insufficient, conventional discourses of terrorism and counterterrorism fail to address the fundamental problem in such misrecognitions and miscommunications. Found crucial to the perpetuation of the cycle of terror are the monological formulations of absolute moral principles and the sociological reproduction of fundamentalist attitudes and behaviors. Such a conceptual framework implicates the recognition of terror in human interactions ranging from the social to the political. To transform such terroristic dispositions requires meaningful interchange between those with different mentalities and practices. Through sharing narratives and not only criticism, interlocutors can enhance their epistemological and moral capabilities to imagine and pursue different beings and doings. Thus, fostering intercultural dialogue and building interdependency are essential to cultivating the freedom from terror through pedagogical means.
From studies on ‘homeland security’ to ‘re-education’ programs for captured ‘enemy combatants’, the governmental deployment of education to counter terrorism warrants more thought and research. Reinterpreting the discourse of terrorism provides a substantively new framework for educational research and imperatives, particularly the cultivation of intercultural learning. This thesis provides justification for such an intercultural education, an emancipating process that cultivates visions of a different world, one free of terror.published_or_final_version
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NEVES, FAGNER HENRIQUE GUEDES. "KNOWLEDGE, SCHOOL AND CULTURE: SOCIOLOGY TEACHING AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24416@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEste trabalho situa-se na confluência entre conhecimento, educação escolar, ensino de Sociologia e interculturalidade, um diálogo pouco explorado pela pesquisa educacional brasileira. Tendo como referenciais os estudos interculturais de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau e Antônio Flávio Moreira, busca-se discutir como os professores de Sociologia lotados na escola básica compreendem as possibilidades de debates entre o saber sociológico escolar e a educação intercultural. Neste empreendimento, dois objetivos são visados: (1) identificar as representações de professores de Sociologia de escolas públicas de Niterói sobre as relações entre o conhecimento sociológico escolar vigente na escola básica brasileira e a proposta da educação intercultural e a (2) problematizar possibilidades de construção de currículos escolares sociológicos interculturalmente orientados no contexto de escolas da rede pública. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com onze sujeitos licenciados em Ciências Sociais e atuantes no magistério estadual de Sociologia há pelo menos dois anos. Foram também analisados documentos curriculares oficiais voltados ao ensino médio e à disciplina de Sociologia. Mediante a articulação entre os dados obtidos através desses procedimentos e os referenciais teórico-conceituais enunciados, foi possível obter significativos achados. A despeito de diversas proposições favoráveis à educação intercultural nos documentos curriculares analisados, esta ainda é escassamente promovida na seleção de conteúdos e no desenvolvimento de práticas pedagógicas no ensino básico de Sociologia, conforme relatam os sujeitos da pesquisa. Nesse cenário, a construção intercultural do conhecimento sociológico escolar é uma meta a se cumprir, repleta de desafios a serem enfrentados pelo sistema escolar e os educadores.
This work approaches an unusual discussion in the Brazilian educational research, involving knowledge, school education, Sociology teaching, and interculturalism. Specifically, the work focuses the public high-school Sociology teachers opinions about the dialogues between the Sociology knowledge and the project of the intercultural education, considering the conceptions from Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau, and Antônio Flávio Moreira. There are two research goals: (1) to identify the high-school Sociology-teachers representations about the Sociology knowledge which is normally taught at the Brazilian Schools and its relationships with the intercultural education; (2) to propose some possibilities of creating Sociology public high-schools curricula under the intercultural concepts. Semi-structured interviews with eleven Social Sciences licensed-teachers who have been working at public high-schools in Niterói City (State of Rio de Janeiro) for at least two years were made. In addition, the official curricula documents concerning Sociology teaching and high-school education were analyzed. Linking the achieved data with the theoretical references, some important results were found. Although the analyzed documents point many propositions around the intercultural constitution of the Sociology teaching, content choices and the pedagogical practices are not usually affected by the intercultural education. At this scenery, building a high-school Sociology teaching under intercultural ideas remains as a non-reached goal, which is plenty of challenges to be faced by the educators.
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Stead, Katerina Bokova. "Education for global citizenship : an intercultural and cosmopolitan perspective." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/803.
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In response to the changes brought about by globalization, colleges and universities around the \Vorld are increasingly developing and expanding the 4 internationalization programs on their campuses. One important aspect of these programs that is often highlighted by institutions in their mission statements is the development of global citizenship among graduates. However, despite the rhetorical claims and apparent intemationalization activity aimed at producing global citizens, many recent reports suggest that most institutions in North America and elsewhere have not been successful in this goal. Two common issues in this failure are a Jack of clarity in the definition and purpose of global citizenship education, and Jack of appropriate assessment tools and practices. In light of these problems, this exploratory thesis examines two existing frameworks, cosmopolitanism and intercultural relations, in an effort to establish a strong theoretical foundation for the support and development of a moral, ethical, and social justice perspective of education for global citizenship programs in colleges and universities that reflects the traditions of a liberal education. Analysis of the existing scholarship in these two areas shows a commonality between the frameworks that is mostly unrecognized in the literature. Together, the similarities in these two theoretical frameworks combine to make a compelling argument for the continued development of global citizenship programs that focus on peace and social justice. In addition, these frameworks provide effective solutions for the critical problems faced by education for global citizenship programs.
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Baker, William. "Intercultural awareness and intercultural communication through English : an investigation of Thai English language users in higher education." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66542/.
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Over the previous few decades there has been an increased emphasis on the cultural aspects of English language teaching. However, in settings where English is used as a global lingua franca the cultural associations of the language are complex and the role culture plays in successful communication has yet to be extensively investigated. To conduct such a study it is necessary to explicate the role and nature of English in global contexts and particularly how English functions as a lingua franca (ELF). Furthermore, a theoretical understanding of the relationships between languages and cultures in intercultural communication is needed, which emphasises the fluid and dynamic nature of any connections. The thesis focuses on cultural awareness (CA) as an approach to equipping learners and users of English for the diversity of intercultural communication. However, it is suggested that CA has still not incorporated an understanding of the multifarious uses of English in global contexts where no clear cultural associations can be established. Thus, intercultural awareness (ICA) is offered as an alternative which addresses these needs. This results in the formulation of research questions which aim to explore how ICA can best be characterised in an expanding circle setting and the role it plays in intercultural communication. Furthermore, this research also aims to explicate the relationships between the English language and cultures in such an environment and how this reflects on language use and attitudes. The study was predominantly qualitative utilising approaches associated with ethnography with the aim of producing a rich description of the research participants and their environment. The fieldwork took place over a six month period in a Thai university and seven participants formed the core of this study. The main data sources were recordings of the participants engaged in intercultural communication and interviews with the participants. These were supplemented with a survey, diaries, observations and documents from the research site. The findings of the study suggest that in successful intercultural communication culturally based forms, practices and frames of reference are employed as emergent, dynamic and liminal resources in a manner that moves between individual, local, national and global references. Furthermore, the results also indicated that ICA was a valid construct in the context investigated for explaining the types of cultural knowledge and related skills needed by participants to take part in successful intercultural communication through English.
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Garvey, T. "Intercultural education : the case of Ireland and Lesotho Primary Teacher Education Support Project." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403478.
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Woitsch, Ulrike. "Walking through the intercultural field : an ethnographic study on intercultural language learning as a spatial-embodied practice." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3325/.
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Within concepts on intercultural language learning it is generally acknowledged that the ‘context’ of the individual learning experience plays an important role for the acquisition of a foreign language and intercultural learning processes. A detailed understanding of what it is we call ‘context’ is still missing – as are studies that focus particularly on the language learning environment outside the classroom and the role of everyday space and place for intercultural encounter. This thesis draws largely on spatial theory in addressing space and place as a site of geo-political and social-cultural change, and as a crucial element of intercultural language learning processes. Narratives, de Certeau (1984: 116) says, are “written by footsteps.” The methodological orientation of this thesis follows both the narratives and footsteps of language learners, and as such is anchored in and around the element of movement. In creating a spatial ‘method assemblage’ (Law 2004) that engages both mobile and visual elements, I am arguing for a methodological change in perspective while giving credit to the perspective of language learners and their everyday routes and learning environments. This argument correlates with the particular methodological tool of ‘guided walks’, in which researcher and language learner walk together on daily routes within places of significance. Giving walking a central methodological and analytic role within this thesis underlines those moments of intercultural experience, which are based on movement, transformation and the search for the ephemeral. The particular understanding of intercultural language learning as a ‘spatial-embodied practice’ emerges from an ethnographic study as well as from a detailed examination of the ‘intercultural field’. The various imbalances of the ‘intercultural field’ effect intercultural language learning through the body, as well as the senses and practices of diversity, and re-shape an awareness of space. Not only increased physical mobility, but the complex networks of flows and transnational interrelations, increasingly transform intercultural experience. From this perspective, this thesis argues that language learners weave their intercultural experience through practices of ‘place making’ (Ingold 2011), and by moving in between myriad borders and boundaries.
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Quigg, Seth Watson. "Intercultural Competency Assessment through International Cultural Immersion Programs." Thesis, Prescott College, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539431.
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This study examines how implementing ethnographic tools and techniques into an international cultural immersion program (ICIP) curriculum specifically influences group members' intercultural competency. For this study, an ethnographic inquiry curriculum is introduced to participants of three different World Challenge Exp edition (WCE) courses. Ethnographic tools and techniques included photo elicitation interviews, structured journaling and taking field notes, and observational activities. WCEs is an international cultural immersion organization based out of the United Kingdom with branches in Australia, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, the United States,and Hong Kong and runs programs eight to 28-days in length. To gauge the effects the tools and techniques have on each group member's intercultural competency pre and post expedition surveys, and end-of-expedition interviews were employed. Literature on experiential education, ethnography, ethnographic tools and tech niques, and intercultural competencies support the overall project. Additionally, the results, data analysis, discussion of the findings, and recommendations for future studies are presented to summarize and solidify the overall research study. The study results showed that approximately half of the total study population increased their capacity to listen and observe because of the implementation of ethnographic tools and techniques. Additionally, the implementation of ethnographic tools and techniques may have provided insight into how the host culture, and family life are more similar than different to theirs back home. The group member's qualitative answers to the interview questions provided interculturally competent answers and looks in part to be due to the use of ethnographic tools and techniques.
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Olivera, Rodríguez Inés, and Gunther Dietz. "Higher education and indigenous peoples: national contexts to place the experiences." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112543.
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Con la intensión de ofrecer el marco de referencia para comprender y comparar las experiencias canalizadas en este número, el siguiente texto presenta la situación de los jóvenes indígenas en la educación superior en México y Perú. Esta descripción contextual ha sido construida desde la comprensión de que todo lo avanzado en esta materia ha sido el resultado de procesos de configuración de una demanda, su traducción como política pública y su re-traducción en la gestión, aplicación o uso de la misma. De esta forma, el texto presenta los casos de México y Perú en dos ejes: la formulación de la demanda y la construcción de la oferta de educación superior intercultural o para pueblos indígenas.In order to provide a contextual frame to understand and to compare the experiences analyzed in this issue, this introductory text presents the situation indigenous youth is facing in higher education in Mexico and Peru. This contextual presentation has been shaped by our conviction that what has been achieved is a result of a larger process of indigenous struggles and claims, their translation into public policy and its implementation inside higher education institutions. Accordingly, this text introduces the cases of Mexico and Peru through two dimensions: the emergence of the specific claims, on the one hand, and the respective construction of intercultural higher education for indigenous people, on the other hand.
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Duncan, Sharon. "Teacher negotiation of intercultural education policy in rural Mexico : the implications for educational equity." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019998/.
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This thesis explores the challenges and tensions facing an intercultural education programme, Modalidad Educativa Intercultural para la Poblacion Infantil Migrante, MEIPIM (Intercultural Educational Programme for Child Migrants), designed to meet the learning requirements of agricultural migrant child workers in Mexico. Working voluntarily on the programme, ethnographic research was carried out on both the teacher training component and the classroom-based implementation of MEIPIM. The teachers at the centre of the study are mainly from rural areas in Veracruz, Mexico, and the students are the child labourers of seasonal migrant agricultural workers. The thesis is shaped by a central consideration to explore how teacher negotiation of 'top down' generic intercultural education development policy might function as a local practice to promote or inhibit educational equity. Teacher subjectivity and identity formation processes are fundamental to this exploration. Analysis of the empirical evidence suggests that the cultural politics of global intercultural education policy appear to generate pedagogic practices to address cultural rather than socioeconomic injustice. The data also suggest that teacher negotiation of MEIPIM's cultural affirmation strategies is mediated by wider discriminatory nationalist and ethnic ideologies. As a result, teacher negotiation of MEIPIM's intercultural aims appears to reinforce, rather than democratise prevailing discriminatory and racist social relations Applying Bernstein's analytical distinctions for competence and performance pedagogic modes, the empirical findings also suggest that MEIPIM's intercultural policy is shaped by a contradictory pedagogic device which determines an unproductive form of 'strategy teaching' that undermines the programme's cognitive aims. As a result, this study not only demonstrates how the mediation of the global by the local rearticulates policy aims to generate unintended policy outcomes, but also suggest that global/local mediation is shaped by a global, rather than a local, deficit position.
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Espinosa, Óscar. "Higher Education for Indigenous Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon Region: Balance and Challenges." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112547.
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En las últimas décadas, el acceso de jóvenes indígenas a la educación superior, así como la creación de universidades interculturales, han sido objeto de interés y de debate en América Latina. En el presente artículo se revisan los distintos tipos de ofertas y de experiencias de educación superior para indígenas amazónicos en el Perú implementados en los últimos años, y se busca realizar un balance sobre los logros alcanzados y las posibilidades reales de oferta de una educación superior intercultural. El presente trabajo es fruto del análisis y estudio continuo, hechos durante la última década, sobre distintas experiencias implementadas en el Perú, especialmente aquellas orientadas a la juventud indígena amazónica. El artículo discute, en primer lugar, el caso de los programas de formación de maestros bilingües. Este tipo de programas es el que tiene una mayor trayectoria como oferta de educación superior explícitamente orientada a la población indígena. En segundo lugar, se presentan algunos programas de acción afirmativa implementados por las universidades o por el Estado, ya sea a través de sistemas de cuotas de admisión o de becas especiales. Finalmente, se aborda el caso de las universidades interculturales, que son las de más reciente creación, y se discuten sus posibilidades reales como espacios de formación intercultural, así como sus posibilidades de sobrevivencia en el futuro cercano.In the last decades, an important discussion has been developed in Latin America about the access of indigenous students to higher-education institutions and about the creation of intercultural universities. This article specifically revises the different types of experiences of higher-education offered to the indigenous youth of the Peruvian Amazon region, and it builds on information gathered throughout the last decade of following and studying these experiences. The article begins with a discussion of the programs for bilingual teachers, which has been the prioritized form of access to higher education offered to the indigenous peoples. Then it analyzes different cases of affirmative action programs promoted by the Peruvian State and Peruvian universities, such as quotas and special scholarship programs. Finally, it presents the case of the intercultural universities, most of which have been created only a few years ago, and it discusses their real possibilities of becoming an alternative form of engaging with intercultural education.
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Holland, Christine K. "Classroom Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education Students, Interns, and Alumni." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/473.
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The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the impact of a student teaching internship upon the classroom intercultural competence (CIC) of teacher education students and alumni. Phase I employed quantitative methodology to compare the intercultural competence as measured by Ross, Thornson, McDonald, and Arrastia’s (2009) Cross Cultural Competence Inventory (3CI) for three groups. The 3CI is a 63-item survey that uses corresponding questions to assess intercultural competence. Survey items are scored with a 6-point, strongly agree-to-strongly disagree Likert scale (Thornson, 2010). The three groups included teacher education students enrolled in a field observation course, students enrolled in their student teaching internship, and teacher education alumni currently teaching in the Jacksonville metropolitan area. Participants’ 3CI scores were used as a diagnostic tool to facilitate the recognition of factors relative to their overall intercultural competence. Three quantitative research questions were tested: Is there a statistically significant difference between matched pairs of intern’s CIC as measured by the scales and subscales of the 3CI (Ross et al., 2009) after students complete their field observation experience as compared to their pre-field observation scores? This question was not supported (t(116) = 1.07; p > .05). Do matched pairs of interns who experienced an IST enhanced internship (Ross et al., 2009) as compared to matched pairs of interns whose student teaching experience was exclusively in a domestic classroom? This question was supported (t(38) = 1.68; p < .001; d = .252). Do in-service teachers who experienced an IST enhanced internship demonstrate increased CIC as measured by the scales and subscales of the 3CI (Ross et al., 2009) as compared to in-service teachers whose student teaching experience was exclusively in a domestic classroom? This question was not supported (t(25) = .93; p > .05).
Each of the 6 subfactors was charted to portray a graphic illustration of the areas of strengths and weakness concerning classroom intercultural competence.
In the qualitative component of the present study, interview methodology facilitated gathering qualitative data from intern and in-service teachers. This provided a context for enhancing the quantitative data and for addressing the unique nature of how different individuals learn to adapt to diverse students in the classroom. One qualitative research question was tested: To what extent do qualitative data collected from interviews reflect similar areas of growth as indicated by the scales and subscales of the 3CI (Ross et al., 2009) quantitative measurement?
Interviews with these teachers led to the identification of significant factors related to intercultural communicative success in the multicultural classroom. Hence, research question 4 was supported.
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Arrey, M. (Marie). "Finnish higher education:a study of the impact of neoliberal values on the perceptions of quality and quality assessment among academics at a Finnish education institution." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201309141694.
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The shift from the industrial to the post-industrial era, as well as the infiltration of the neoliberal ideology into the higher education sector, have brought with it ramifications with regards to the tasks of higher education, and the idea of quality and quality assessment in higher education. In the industrial era, tangible factors of production such as land and money were considered the key factors of economic development. However, in the 21st century post-industrial era, knowledge has emerged as the key driver of economic development. Knowledge is no longer seen as stuff, which could be stored away for future use and codified into disciplines, rather, it is seen as factor that is defined by the results it achieves. Neoliberalism is an ideology that sees the market as having the potential to produce a wide range of beneficial outcomes for individuals in a competitive market environment. Inspired by neoliberalism, governments around the world have put in place competitive performance-based funding schemes, by which higher education institutions are funded, not on the basis of intake, but on production, efficiency, and effectiveness. Central concepts of neoliberalism include: efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, and quality, along with their assessment. The present use of the term quality is a concept that emerged from the manufacturing industry and infiltrated into higher education, with implications for what the tasks of higher education are, and how quality is defined and assessed in higher education. Higher education has had its own traditional understanding of quality and quality assessment, which relied more on peer review to ascertain the quality of its work. In the four dominant archetypal models of the university; the Napoleonic, Humboldtian, Newmanian, and Deweyan, a common feature was that the university was an institution for the state by the state, and it was to promote collective good, and foster values such as democracy, equality, and critical thinking, One thing that is inherent in the neoliberal ideology is that it provides a narrower conception of what the tasks of higher education are, as well as a skeletal definition of quality in higher education.
This research involved interviews with university staff, and sets out to answer two questions:
1) How do the participants perceive the tasks of the University of X?
2) How do the participants perceive quality and quality assessment at the University of X?
This research aims to find out the impact of neoliberal values on the perceptions of quality and quality assessment among academics at a Finnish education institution (given the pseudonym the University of X in this research). The research participants comprises of a teacher, junior researcher, professor, professor emeritus, and an academic in a managerial position. Phenomenography, a qualitative methodological approach which studies the perceptions of individuals was used in this research. Data was collected using semi-structured phenomenographical thematic interviews, and was analysed using the phenomenographical method of data analysis. The findings of this research revealed that, the participants perceived that research and journal article publication are the main tasks of the University of X, while the institution’s societal and teaching tasks are not a primary focus. This research also established that, quality is conceived of as, and assessed more in terms of productivity, efficiency, effectiveness and reputation, rather than in terms of process, educational value, content, or human well-being. The participants also felt that, the performance-based funding scheme instituted by the Finnish government and the neoliberal market values which has swept over Europe, play vital roles in the University of X’s narrowed conception of what its tasks, quality and quality assessment are The participants expressed an awareness of the role of neoliberalism in narrowing the University of X’s tasks to economic instrumentality, and reducing its conception of quality and quality assessment to quantitative performance indicators, to the exclusion of non-quantitative educational and societal indicators of quality.
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Tsaliki, Evanthia. "Intercultural education in Greece : the case of thirteen primary schools." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020688/.
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The present study deals with headteachers' and teachers' perceptions of the nature of intercultural education and the necessity of its implementation in intercultural primary schools in Greece. It also seeks to explore teachers' and headteachers' views on the teaching methods adopted and the events and activities organised in the classrooms and in the school to implement intercultural education, and why. The research methodology adopted is a mixed-method approach. It has been employed in order to add breadth and depth to the analysis and to achieve a better and more complete understanding of the social phenomenon examined. The research methods used include questionnaires administered and interviews undertaken with teachers and headteachers. Teachers and headteachers seem to have a clear idea of the meaning of intercultural education and of its principles. In addition, they support the implementation of intercultural education for a number of reasons. The results indicate that great importance is attributed to the use of cooperative learning, group work and the interdisciplinary approach to implementing intercultural education. Teachers and headteachers also seem more confident to implement intercultural education in language studies and social studies as well as in art studies. Data analysis reveals that teachers organise a variety of events and activities in order to implement intercultural education. The findings provide suggestions for the creation of a school environment m which the intercultural dimension in education will be promoted in the school, so as to meet the educational needs of native, foreign, and repatriate pupils attending both intercultural and mainstream primary schools. The contribution of the present study to the topic examined is significant, since there has been no previous research conducted in all 13 intercultural primary schools in Greece.
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Mira, Tapia Alejandro. "Academic knowledge and intercultural strategies among students and graduated from the Instituto Intercultural Ñöñho." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/112538.
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Este artículo se basa en una investigación etnográfica de dos años que analiza el proceso de profesionalización y las experiencias de trabajo comunitario de estudiantes y egresados del Instituto Intercultural Ñöñho (IIÑ), una pequeña universidad indígena ubicada en la región ñöñho (otomí) del sur del estado mexicano de Querétaro. Entre los principales hallazgos se muestra que estos actores, a través del uso sociocultural de sus saberes escolares, construyen y despliegan colectivamente un conjunto de estrategias interculturales (Bertely, 1997) para intervenir comunitariamente en tres aspectos: (i) las condiciones locales de marginación socioeconómica, (ii) el desplazamiento cultural y lingüístico, y (iii) la presencia de violencias en los espacios de socialización juvenil. En un inicio, el texto pone en perspectiva histórica las distintas rutas de profesionalización indígena que han existido en el contexto mexicano. Posteriormente, se ofrece una contextualización del IIÑ y del perfil pedagógico de su programa de licenciatura en Economías Solidarias. Finalmente se describen las estrategias interculturales que producen estudiantes y egresados de esta universidad indígena, a partir de una mirada que contempla la afirmación de su etnicidad en el marco de procesos de escolarización.This article is based on a two-year ethnographic research that analyzes the process of professionalization and community work experiences of students and graduates of the Instituto Intercultural Ñöñho (IIÑ), a small indigenous university located in the ñöñho (otomí) region of the southern Mexican state of Querétaro. Among the main findings it presents that these actors collectively build and display a set of intercultural strategies (Bertely, 1997) to intervene in three issues: (i) the local socio-economic marginalization conditions, (ii) the cultural and language shift, (iii) and the violence within the socialization spaces of the youths.; all these through the sociocultural application of their academic knowledge. Firstly, this study puts in historical perspective the different paths of indigenous professionalization that have existed in the Mexican context. Subsequently, it offers a contextualization of the IIÑ and of the pedagogical profile of its degree program in Solidarity Economics. Finally, it describes the intercultural strategies produced by the students and graduates from this indigenous university, departing from the assertion of their own ethnicity within their schooling process.
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Rychener, Melissa Anne. "Intercultural experiential learning through international internships the case of medical education /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1087182917.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 177 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-149).
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Allen, Suzanne. "Pathway Reflections: Intercultural Understanding in NSW Preparatory Programs to Higher Education." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/22873.
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This qualitative study addresses intercultural understanding (ICU) in NSW English entry programs to higher education, offered by Registered Training Organisations and universities. These preparatory programs or ‘pathways’ offer international students an alternative entry to university, predominantly through delivering additional English language support. The study entailed investigation into the nature and value of ICU in three institutes. Two of the institutes offered English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students, and the participants were enrolled in classes at the advanced level of ‘English for Academic Purposes’. The third institute also focused on academic English in offering English Communication classes. Pathway processes were explored through observations, curricula analysis, and interviews with administrative staff, tutors, and students. Throughout, the researcher gave recognition to cultural multiplicities (Deleuze, 1968/1994), with particular attention to pedagogical feminism. Critical discourse analysis was employed as the methodology. An additional dimension to the research is provided with auto-ethnographic reflections from the researcher’s own teaching experiences in pathway programs. The study locates methods for students and tutors to penetrate practices that may enrich ICU and clarifies areas where educational policy and pedagogical methodologies may be revised to facilitate deepening ICU. Key Words: higher education, intercultural learning, intercultural understanding, international students, pathway.
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Donelan, Katriona Jane, and n/a. "The Gods Project: Drama as Intercultural Education. An Ethnographic Study of an Intercultural Performance Project in a Secondary School." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060609.111246.
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This thesis investigates the role of drama in the intercultural education of young people. It considers the relationship between the fields of drama education, intercultural performance and ethnography. The drama curriculum is explored as a site of intercultural learning and performance pedagogy. The thesis also examines the place of ethnography as an embodied, participatory practice in intercultural drama pedagogy and performance research. The study is placed in a context of international exchange and cultural pluralism, and is framed by debates about intercultural performance and the appropriation and representation of cultural narratives. This investigation of interculturalism within the drama curriculum is grounded in an ethnographic study conducted in Melbourne, Australia in a multicultural secondary school community. The study documents the experiences of approximately forty young people who participated in an African drama and performing arts project called The Gods Project. Jean, a Kenyan performing artist who was undertaking a two-year residency in the school, led the intercultural performance project. Participants were involved in drama and performing arts workshops, an African creative arts camp and a performance of a play, The Gods are not to Blame, by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi. The interpretative account of the project draws on ethnographic data from the first year of Jeans residency in the school and six months of intensive fieldwork in the second year of her residency. It also includes longitudinal data that was collected from a group of participants up to four years after the project. I collaborated with Jean and with a group of senior students, who volunteered to be student co-researchers, to record and analyse the diverse experiences of participants in The Gods Project and to interpret its educational, social, and aesthetic impact within the school context. Jeans pedagogy of intercultural story telling within the drama classroom and her role as a cultural guide throughout the project was explored. As a participatory ethnographic researcher, drama educator and assistant director, I worked alongside Jean and the students as they played with, talked about, resisted, created, adapted, subverted, embodied and performed intercultural performance texts. Drawing on Turner (1982) and Schechner (1988), I conceptualised The Gods Project as an intersecting social and aesthetic drama. The phases of social drama and ritual were used as a framework for the data analysis and as a structure for the narrative account of the project. Turners concepts of the liminal/liminoid and communitas were applied to the participants experiences at the creative arts camp and within the workshop and performance space. Dark play was identified as the young peoples response to the difficult social drama they were involved in; their subversive play provided a way to engage with the strangeness of the cultural material and the plays dark story and themes. The participants dramatic play informed the emerging aesthetic drama and facilitated their intercultural meaning making. The students efforts to make sense of and interpret a performance text embedded in a Yoruba context resemble the task of an ethnographer attempting to understand and represent socio-cultural experiences. The study demonstrates that through a process of collaborative intercultural reflexivity, ethnography can enhance intercultural drama education. The pedagogical features of The Gods Project are related to Turners concept of performance ethnography and the role of a cultural guide in intercultural teaching and learning is highlighted. With the guidance of their Kenyan teaching artist many of the young people engaged with different socio-cultural perspectives, actively explored new cultural performance conventions and art forms, and experienced the complexities of intercultural representation. The study reveals evidence of significant social, personal, intercultural and artistic learning outcomes for participants within this school-based performance project. However, the study also reveals the difficulties and challenges of implementing an innovative intercultural project within a school context. It demonstrates that kinaesthetic, playful, embodied and performative experiences are central to intercultural teaching and learning.
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Donelan, Katriona Jane. "The Gods Project: Drama as Intercultural Education. An Ethnographic Study of an Intercultural Performance Project in a Secondary School." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368076.
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This thesis investigates the role of drama in the intercultural education of young people. It considers the relationship between the fields of drama education, intercultural performance and ethnography. The drama curriculum is explored as a site of intercultural learning and performance pedagogy. The thesis also examines the place of ethnography as an embodied, participatory practice in intercultural drama pedagogy and performance research. The study is placed in a context of international exchange and cultural pluralism, and is framed by debates about intercultural performance and the appropriation and representation of cultural narratives.
This investigation of interculturalism within the drama curriculum is grounded in an ethnographic study conducted in Melbourne, Australia in a multicultural secondary school community. The study documents the experiences of approximately forty young people who participated in an African drama and performing arts project called ‘The Gods Project’. ‘Jean’, a Kenyan performing artist who was undertaking a two-year residency in the school, led the intercultural performance project. Participants were involved in drama and performing arts workshops, an ‘African’ creative arts camp and a performance of a play, The Gods are not to Blame, by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi. The interpretative account of the project draws on ethnographic data from the first year of Jean’s residency in the school and six months of intensive fieldwork in the second year of her residency. It also includes longitudinal data that was collected from a group of participants up to four years after the project.
I collaborated with Jean and with a group of senior students, who volunteered to be ‘student co-researchers’, to record and analyse the diverse experiences of participants in The Gods Project and to interpret its educational, social, and aesthetic impact within the school context. Jean’s pedagogy of intercultural story telling within the drama classroom and her role as a ‘cultural guide’ throughout the project was explored. As a participatory ethnographic researcher, drama educator and ‘assistant director’, I worked alongside Jean and the students as they played with, talked about, resisted, created, adapted, subverted, embodied and performed intercultural performance texts.
Drawing on Turner (1982) and Schechner (1988), I conceptualised The Gods Project as an intersecting social and aesthetic drama. The phases of ‘social drama’ and ritual were used as a framework for the data analysis and as a structure for the narrative account of the project. Turner’s concepts of the ‘liminal/liminoid’ and ‘communitas’ were applied to the participants’ experiences at the creative arts camp and within the workshop and performance space. ‘Dark play’ was identified as the young people’s response to the difficult social drama they were involved in; their subversive play provided a way to engage with the ‘strangeness’ of the cultural material and the play’s ‘dark’ story and themes. The participants’ dramatic play informed the emerging aesthetic drama and facilitated their intercultural meaning making.
The students’ efforts to make sense of and interpret a performance text embedded in a Yoruba context resemble the task of an ethnographer attempting to understand and represent socio-cultural experiences. The study demonstrates that through a process of collaborative ‘intercultural reflexivity’, ethnography can enhance intercultural drama education.
The pedagogical features of The Gods Project are related to Turner’s concept of performance ethnography and the role of a ‘cultural guide’ in intercultural teaching and learning is highlighted. With the guidance of their Kenyan teaching artist many of the young people engaged with different socio-cultural perspectives, actively explored new cultural performance conventions and art forms, and experienced the complexities of intercultural representation. The study reveals evidence of significant social, personal, intercultural and artistic learning outcomes for participants within this school-based performance project. However, the study also reveals the difficulties and challenges of implementing an innovative intercultural project within a school context. It demonstrates that kinaesthetic, playful, embodied and performative experiences are central to intercultural teaching and learning.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education
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Melchor, Bazalar Ariana. "A Short-Term Intercultural Immersion Program in the US: Contextualizing Intercultural Adjustment Journeys." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/653718.
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La educación superior ha sido impactada de gran manera por un mundo crecientemente interconectado y las demandas de empleadores por graduados con educación internacional, catalizando una tendencia de programas study-abroad de corta duración. A pesar de su crecimiento prominente y la expansión de su alcance, surgen desafíos clave porque la investigación sobre los aprendizajes de los estudiantes y la efectividad de estos programas aún se encuentra en etapas iniciales. Es fundamental entender los study-abroad como una variable cambiante, en donde el diseño del programa se relaciona con los aprendizajes del estudiante y las experiencias específicas de ajuste intercultural estén enmarcadas en su contexto. El Iacocca Global Village en Lehigh University (EE. UU.) fue elegido como estudio de caso. Los hallazgos muestran que se necesita una pedagogía intencional enfocada en resultados interculturales respaldada por tutorías continuas. Es importante tener una participación obligatoria en integración cultural y grupos de apoyo, la presión por el trabajo real y la responsabilidad es un requisito previo para dejar la zona de confort y fomentar los encuentros interculturales y que las redes de egresados puedan contribuir a mantener el sentido de pertenencia desarrollado en el programa.The increasingly interconnected world and the demands for internationally educated graduates have had a major impact on higher education and have catalyzed the trend of short-term studies abroad. Key challenges arise because, despite their prominent growth and the expansion of their reach, the research on student outcomes and program effectiveness is still in initial stages. It is essential to approach education abroad as a non-steady variable, where the program design is related to student learning gains and specific intercultural adjustment experiences, framed within their context. The Iacocca Global Village in Lehigh University (USA) was chosen as a case study. Findings show there is a need for intentional pedagogy focused on intercultural outcomes supported by ongoing mentoring it´s important to have mandatory involvement in cultural integration and support groups, pressure for real work and accountability is a prerequisite to leave the comfort zone and foster intercultural encounters and that alumni networks can contribute to maintain the sense of belonging developed in the program.
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Thid, Emelie. "Att vara lärare med interkulturell kompetens : En kvalitativ studie med förskolelärare/lärare som gått interkulturell lärarutbildning." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-14528.
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The Swedish school is today a meeting place for many people with different cultures. The teacher education at Södertörn University have since 2002 been influenced by an intercultural profile. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the intercultural profile of Södertörn University is expressed in preschool- teachers/ teachers work. Is an intercultural approach requested in schools and is intercultural approach useful and applicable in the teaching profession? The report is based on a qualitative study of what intercultural competence means for five preschool- teachers/ teachers who have graduated from Södertörn University. The report describes what intercultural competence means to them and how they use their intercultural competence in their work. It also investigates the employers view on intercultural competence. There seems to be some uncertainty about intercultural competence, during the interviews with the preschool teachers/ teachers they became more aware of how they actually use their intercultural competence. These preschool- teacher/ teacher have perhaps not had the opportunity to reflect on the concept. My conclusion is that intercultural competence is essential in school because teachers meet people with different cultures every day, that’s why teachers need to work with ethnocentric behavior. Teachers have a responsibility not to pass on prejudices about people to their students. All children have a right to feel included in the school community regardless of who they are and where they come from.
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Guilherme, Maria Manuela Duarte. "Critical cultural awareness : the critical dimension in foreign culture education." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1533/.
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Rodriguez, Rafael A. "Transformative Preparation: Measuring The Intercultural Competence Development Of Higher Education And Student Affairs (hesa) Students And Exploring The Intercultural Learning Experience Across Assistantship Sites." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1154.
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Today’s college student body reflects, among many things, the outcome of policies geared towards increasing access and diversifying the academy, efforts to recruit international students, the vast social, political, and economic disparities among marginalized populations, and the extreme cultural polarization of our times. Students on campuses have broad and individualized perspective, approaches, and values, which are culturally rooted, embedded within our socialization and often times conflict with the experiences of other students or the student affairs professionals tasked with supporting students. Student affairs practitioners must enter the field possessing a degree of intercultural competence, defined as an appropriate skillset and mindset, to effectively work across difference and support today’s college student. While the development of intercultural competence is a life-long learning process, master’s-level preparatory programs serve as a critical space for aspiring student affairs practitioners to engage in intercultural learning and skill development. Utilizing pre and post data result from the Intercultural Development Inventory and information gathered from post-graduation interviews, this mixed-methods study examined the intercultural competence development of students in Higher Education within a student affairs master’s level preparatory and their intercultural learning experiences at the assistantship site. The study found that across assistantship sites and observed developmental change, intercultural learning was dictated by the three themes: influential relationships, impactful factors, and depth of engagement.
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Liwen, J. (Jiang). "Adult third culture kids and their intercultural learning and competence." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606042307.
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Due to globalization, there are more and more families are bringing their children abroad due to different reasons (Cockburn 2002, 475–476). Third culture kids (TCKs) have gradually become well known to people and the society. The aim of this research is to discuss TCKs’ intercultural learning and competence during their significant years of development and what this experience means to them in terms of their educational and career choices.
This is a qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews collected from six adult third culture kids (ATCKs). The theoretical framework lies under the study of intercultural learning and competence. Intercultural learning as transformative learning and informal learning are discussed and different models of intercultural competence are also presented in the theoretical framework. Narrative research has been chosen for the methodological approach of this study. The main findings of this research show that the intercultural learning and competence of ATCKs was characterized by the following three themes: Constructing different values and worldviews by living abroad; having no fear to new things and learning from feeling uncomfortable; and the increased ability to build social relationships and learning from others. Regarding the educational choices, the ATCKs I interviewed tended to continue their studies in their passport countries which they were more familiar with. However, their career choices were affected by a desire to learn more from living abroad. The findings of this study may be beneficial for teachers, parents, TCKs and many others who are interested in TCKs intercultural learning and competence.
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Norvilienė, Aida. "Student’s targeted intercultural education as a factor for improvement of their intercultural competence (a case of teacher training at university)." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140509_125942-35918.
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In the current political, economic, cultural, education and training, and other discourses, the consequences of the processes of postmodernism and globalization are becoming increasingly pronounced. To quote J. F. Lyotard, the foundation of postmodernism is the diversity of thinking and its presentation by language, therefore, one has to learn to live by recognizing the said diversity. The vision of postmodernism includes multiplicity, the recognition and promotion of diversity, and the dialogue of differences. The notions of network society, global society, citizen of the world, intercultural education, and cultural integration have been used increasingly frequently. When one lives in a multicultural society, with one of its characteristics being a diversity of cultures, it is necessary to promote cultural exchange and collaboration: to get interested in one‘s own and other cultures and to together create a cohesive and democratic society based on intercultural relations and intercultural dialogue between representatives of different cultures or religions or individuals of a different social or economic status.Šių dienų politiniuose, ekonominiuose, kultūriniuose, švietimo ir ugdymo bei kituose diskursuose vis ryškesni postmodernizmo ir globalizacijos procesų padariniai. Pasak J. F. Lyotard, postmodernizmo pamatas yra mąstymo ir jo įvardijimo kalba įvairovė, todėl būtina mokytis gyventi pripažįstant tą įvairovę. Postmodernybės vizija – daugybingumas, įvairovės pripažinimas ir jos skatinimas, skirtybių dialogas. Vis dažniau yra vartojamos tokios sąvokos: tinklinė visuomenė, globali visuomenė, pasaulio pilietis, daugiakultūrė visuomenė, tarpkultūrinis ugdymas, kultūrų integracija. Gyvenant daugiakultūrėje visuomenėje, kurios vienas iš požymių yra kultūrų įvairovė, būtina skatinti tarpkultūrinį bendravimą ir bendradarbiavimą: domėtis savo ir kitomis kultūromis, drauge kurti darnią ir demokratišką visuomenę, kurios pagrindas – tarpkultūriniai santykiai, tarpkultūrinis dialogas atstovaujančių skirtingoms kultūroms, religijoms asmenų, užimančių skirtingą socialinę ar ekonominę padėtį.
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Gilbert, Joan Elizabeth. "Classroom Approaches and Japanese College Students' Intercultural Competence." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4442.
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Preparing college students to be contributing members of local and global societies requires educators to analyze the capabilities and needs of their students and to adjust instructional content and practice. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was twofold: (a) to explore how classroom approaches designed to facilitate students' questioning of assumptions and beliefs regarding different cultural beliefs, social structures, and practices might influence Japanese college students' self-reported development of intercultural competence, and (b) to investigate whether or not the students developed their potential for intercultural competence. Mezirow's transformative learning theory informed this study. Archival qualitative data were from 137 Japanese undergraduate students' journals from a course with approaches designed to facilitate questioning their assumptions and beliefs. Multilevel coding was used to support thematic analysis. Archival quantitative data of students' pretest and posttest scores on the Intercultural Adaptation Potential Scale (ICAPS) were too few for meaningful analysis. Limited trend interpretations of the quantitative data helped support the qualitative data findings. Key findings included students identifying the importance of opportunities to discuss conflicting cultural beliefs, social structures, and practices; several questioned their assumptions and enhanced their intercultural competence. Expanded research into the challenge of enhancing cultural competence is needed. Positive social change is possible when intercultural competence and understanding the importance of dealing with cultural conflicts in an informed manner are enhanced. Students who expand their comfort levels and understandings will gain membership into multiple societies, reflect critically on their worldviews, and be able to take positive actions during conflicts.
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Feng, Anwei. "The veiled syllabus : cultural dimensions in College English education." Thesis, Durham University, 2000. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1493/.
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Patterson, Paula K. "Effect of study abroad on intercultural sensitivity." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4422.
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Thesis (Ed. D.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 7, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Flaherty, Bridget Eileen. "Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff." The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152009-083236/.
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Despite a recent plateau in the number of international students coming to the U.S., international students still make up a significant portion of the student body at institutes of higher education. Along with attendance at schools, many international students live in campus housing, such as residence halls, and are often placed with a U.S. roommate. Previous research has shown that international and U.S. students may have cultural conflicts, particularly when living together. Since many younger students may not be interculturally competent, it is left to the staff of Residence Life offices, such as resident assistants, to counsel students through their issues; yet many resident assistants do not receive any type of intercultural competence training. A needs analysis was conducted with the current Resident Assistants at The University of Montana, and the results were used to develop intercultural communication competence training for the incoming Resident Assistants in Fall 2009.Body of paper begins here.
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Rotta, Alessandra Montera. "Do intercultural ao desenvolvimento da Competência Intercultural na formação de professores de Português Língua Estrangeira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-08032017-152720/.
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A presente tese de doutorado insere-se na formação de professores para o ensino do português do Brasil para estrangeiros em contexto de imersão, uma preocupação cada vez mais séria e atual no contexto das universidades brasileiras. Beneficiados por alguns programas governamentais, tais como o Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G) e o Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Pós-Graduação (PEC- PG), entre outros, inúmeros estudantes estrangeiros chegam ao país, em sua grande maioria, sem o conhecimento prévio do português do Brasil. Além disso, o Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (CELPE-BRAS) passou a ser exigido pelas universidades brasileiras aos estrangeiros que desejam ingressar em cursos de graduação e em programas de pós-graduação. A partir dessa constatação, esta pesquisa propõe o desenvolvimento da Competência Intercultural (CI) durante a formação inicial de professores. Segundo Byram (1997), devemos preparar os futuros professores para adquirir uma série de conhecimentos, habilidades e atitudes, elementos constituintes da CI, a fim de que eles aprendam a agir e reagir em um contexto intercultural. O ensino e aprendizagem de PLE baseados nessa proposta estimulam o diálogo intercultural, permitem que o contato entre as diferentes culturas resulte em uma abertura de espírito, em uma maior compreensão das representações sociais e dos estereótipos culturais, das crenças e comportamentos em diferentes contextos culturais. A possibilidade de se envolver na cultura do outro, ter empatia por ela e assumir outras perspectivas pode ajudar o futuro professor a expandir sua visão de mundo. A partir da experiência da diversidade e da alteridade, ele reflete sobre sua própria cultura e sobre os valores dela recebidos e, passa a incluir construções relevantes de outras visões de mundo culturais. A principal contribuição desta tese reside na apresentação de uma metodologia que contempla o desenvolvimento da CI para formar não apenas professores de PLE, mas cidadãos mais conscientes de seu papel no mundo plural de hoje.This doctoral thesis is related to teacher training for teaching Brazilian Portuguese to foreigners in a context of immersion, which is a growing preoccupation in Brazilian Universities. Innumerable foreigners students, benefit from governmental programs such as Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G) and Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Pós-Graduação (PEC-PG) among others, the majority of whom arrive in the country without any previous knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese. Furthermore, the Certificate of Proficiency in the Portuguese Language for Foreigners (CELPE-BRAS) has become a requirement by Brazilian Universities, for foreign students who wish to undertake undergraduate and graduate programs. Based on this finding, this research proposes the development of the Intercultural Competence over the initial teacher training. According to Byram (1997), we must prepare future teachers to acquire a variety of knowledge, skills and attitudes, constituent elements of the Intercultural Competence, in order to enable them to act and react in an intercultural context. The teaching and learning of Portuguese as a foreign language based on this proposal, stimulates intercultural dialogue, allows for the contact between different cultures to result in broadmindedness and a greater understanding of social representations and cultural stereotypes /beliefs and behaviors in different cultural contexts. The possibility of getting involved in another culture, with emphasis on other perspectives, can help future teachers to expand their worldview. From the experience of diversity and otherness, the teacher can reflect on his own culture and the values therein, and that includes building on other cultural worldviews. The main contribution of this thesis is the presentation of a methodology that includes the development of the Intercultural Competence in order to form not only teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language, but citizens more aware of their role in today\'s pluralistic world.
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Cooper, Tara L. "Intercultural competency development in student success courses." Scholarly Commons, 2011. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/779.
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Intercultural development is not an intentional goal or expected outcome for College Success courses. However, since such courses are designed to help students adapt to academic and campus cultures, an overlap and alignment between the development of intercultural skills and competence and the development of college competence might exist. This thesis investigated the degree to which intercultural learning was integrated into College Success courses at the curricular level, in instruction practices, and in the individual learning experiences of students, and it also identified current instructional activities most amenable to further targeting of intercultural learning. The research was guided by the following three questions. 1) What are the ways, if any, in which intercultural skills align with those skills seen as necessary for students' successful adaptation in academic and professional settings? 2) Do College Success instructors intentionally or unintentionally incorporate intercultural competence development into the curriculum and instruction? 3) What, if any, are the ways in which instructional practices in College Success courses contribute to intercultural skill development and help students leverage their current experiences with cultural differences? The research was focused on the study of one College Success class at a community college. Data was collected through multiple methods. Class sessions were observed. Interviews were conducted with students in the course, the instructor and the administrator responsible for the course. Documents, including the course syllabus, student learning outcomes, a selection of assignments and the course textbook were reviewed and analyzed. Research findings suggest that there is significant alignment between the development of college competence, as fostered in the College Success course studied, and the development intercultural competence, though such was unintentional and unrecognized by the instructor. The data also illuminated areas where course learning outcomes, curriculum, and instruction could be modified to further support the development of intercultural competency.
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Bukasa, Kadima. "Influence of Intercultural Experiences Abroad on African American High School Students." Thesis, Walden University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636902.
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African American high school students are underrepresented in study abroad programs, and their lack of intercultural skills and international understanding can impede their personal and professional development, and limit their career opportunities. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative case study was to explore the influence of intercultural experiences through study abroad and immersion programs on African American high school students’ intercultural competence. The conceptual framework drew on 2 theories: Bennett’s development model of intercultural sensitivity and Kolb’s experiential learning. Data from interviews and focus groups with 13 African American high school students, 2 parents, and 2 teachers as well as documents and field notes from a Northeast United States urban high school addressed the research questions pertaining to how students perceived travel abroad that fostered intercultural competence skills as well as how teachers and parents perceived students’ personal development. Findings resulted from provisional codes used to identify pattern of codes, and central themes that indicated predeparture seminars and reflective practices enhanced intercultural skills. The portfolios suggested that most students became more reflective and accepting of cultural differences after their sojourn abroad. Recommendations based on the findings suggest increasing homestay experiences and planning and predeparture trainings. Future research is needed on how to attract more male African American students to such programs. The findings may contribute to positive social change by encouraging investment in homestay study abroad and immersion programs with adequate preparation and planning at inner city high schools that might foster intercultural competence skills.
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Jokikokko, K. (Katri). "Teachers' intercultural learning and competence." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2010. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514263705.
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Abstract The aim of this research is to provide more theoretical and practical knowledge and understanding on the process of teachers’ intercultural learning and the nature of intercultural competence in teachers’ work. It is a qualitative study based on various types of questionnaires and interviews collected from former ITE (Intercultural Teacher Education) students in the Department of Educational Sciences in the University of Oulu. The research consists of five articles and a summary part. The research falls with in the area of intercultural education. The theoretical framework of the research is based on critical pedagogy, various models of intercultural competence as well as various learning theories (transformative, experiential, sociocultural) which are seen as approaches that provide analytical and theoretical tools for understanding intercultural learning. Phenomenographical and narrative research approaches construct the methodological framework for the research. The data have been collected twice. The first data consist of open-ended questionnaires (15) and half-structured interviews (10). This set of data was analysed phenomenographically. The second data consist of 10 biographical interviews which are analysed narratively. The main results of the study suggest that, according to the conceptions of the research subjects, teachers’ intercultural competence is less related to specific skills and knowledge than it is comprised of a holistic approach to issues. It is perceived more as an ethical orientation to people, life and diversity, which guides a person’s thinking and behavior rather than an ability to perform something well in an intercultural environment. On the basis of the research, teachers’ intercultural learning processes differ, depending on the person’s background, living environment and other experiences. There does not seem to be only one theory that would comprehensively describe this varied process. Teachers’ intercultural learning is a process involving the combination of formal and informal learning. While it can be a gradual process affected by various life experiences, it sometimes occurs rather suddenly through crises and turning points as assumed in transformative theory. The significant roles of environment and other people for intercultural learning are obvious although individual self-reflection is needed as well. The research also highlights the importance of emotionally strong experiences for intercultural learningTiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoitus on tuoda lisää teoreettista ja käytännöllistä tietoa ja ymmärrystä opettajien interkulttuurisen oppimisen prosessista sekä interkulttuurisen kompetenssin luonteesta. Tutkimus on luonteeltaan laadullinen, ja se perustuu erityyppisiin kyselylomakkeisiin ja haastatteluihin, joita olen kerännyt entisiltä Oulun Yliopiston Kasvatustieteellisen tiedekunnan ITE (Interkulttuurinen opettajankoulutus) -ohjelman opiskelijoilta. Tutkimus koostuu viidestä artikkelista ja yhteenveto-osasta. Tutkimus sijoittuu interkulttuurisen kasvatuksen alueelle. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen viitekehys pohjautuu kriittiseen pedagogiikkaan, interkulttuurisen kompetenssin malleihin sekä erilaisiin oppimisteorioihin (transformatiivinen, kokemuksellinen ja sosiokulttuurinen). Näiden teorioiden katson tarjoavan analyyttisiä ja teoreettisia välineitä interkulttuurisen oppimisen ymmärtämiseen. Tutkimusmetodologiana olen soveltanut fenomenografista ja narratiivista lähestymistapaa. Aineistoa olen kerännyt kahdesti. Ensimmäinen aineisto koostuu avoimista kyselylomakkeista (15) ja puolistrukturoiduista haastatteluista (10). Tämän aineiston analysoin fenomenografisesti. Toinen aineisto koostuu 10 elämänkerrallisesta haastattelusta, jotka analysoin narratiivisesti. Tutkimuksen päätulosten mukaan opettajat eivät koe interkulttuurista kompetenssia niinkään erityisinä taitoina tai tietoina vaan enemmän kokonaisvaltaisena lähestymistapana. Opettajien mukaan interkulttuurinen kompetenssi on ennen kaikkea eettinen orientaatio ihmisiä, elämää ja moninaisuutta kohtaan. Sen katsotaan ohjaavan ihmisen ajattelua ja toimintaa kokonaisvaltaisesti, eikä sitä siis nähdä pelkästään kykynä suorittaa jotain taitavasti monikulttuurisessa ympäristössä. Tutkimuksen tulosten pohjalta voidaan sanoa, että opettajien interkulttuurisen oppimisen prosessit ovat moninaisia riippuen henkilön taustasta, elinympäristöstä ja muista kokemuksista. Mikään kuvatuista oppimisteorioista ei näytä kokonaisvaltaisesti selittävän ja kuvaavan tätä moninaista prosessia. Opettajien kulttuurienvälinen oppiminen sisältää formaalia, informaalia ja nonformaalia oppimista. Se voi olla vähittäinen prosessi, johon erilaiset elämänkokemukset vaikuttavat pikkuhiljaaa. Se voi joskus tapahtua myös yhtäkkisesti kriisien ja elämänmuutosten kautta, kuten transformatiivisen oppimisen teoriassa oletetaan. Merkittävillä toisilla sekä ympäristöllä on interkulttuurisessa oppimisessa suuri rooli, vaikka yksilöllistäkin reflektiota tarvitaan. Tutkimuksessa nousi keskeiseksi myös tunneperäisesti vahvojen kokemusten merkitys interkulttuurisessa oppimisessa
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Oehlschlaeger, Jan Marie. "Intercultural training and international exchange : an exploratory study of the association of intercultural training with hosting goals of American families." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3897.
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This study investigated the host family experience, specifically examining the goals of host families and intercultural training of host families. It compares the the importance and accomplishment of goals between interculturally trained host families and untrained host families.The focus of the research addressed the following research questions:
1) Do host families who receive intercultural training rate their goals differently than families who do not receive intercultural training?
1a) Do host families who receive intercultural training rate differently the goals in which the student meets intra-family needs than families who do not receive intercultural training?
2) Do host families who receive intercultural training report the level of accomplishment of their goals differently than host families who do not receive intercultural training?
2a) Do host families who receive intercultural training report the level of accomplishment of goals regarding cultural awareness differently than families who do not receive intercultural training?
3) To what extent is there a relationship between trained host family ratings of importance and ratings of accomplishment of goals?
3a) To what extent is there a relationship between untrained host family ratings of importance and ratings of accomplishment of goals?
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Chen, Ling. "Topic management as communication accommodation strategies in intra- vs. intercultural interactions /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487694389392506.
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Buchanan, John D., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Social Ecology and Lifelong Learning. "Through others' eyes : intercultural education in the Australian context : the case for global and regional education." THESIS_CAESS_SELL_Buchanan_J.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/656.
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The overarching theme of this doctoral portfolio is the issue of intercultural education. Linked to this are several sub-themes: teacher excellence and professional development; curriculum development and the acquisition of values and attitudes. These themes have been developed through studies of Asia and global education in the Australian context. One major outcome of this research is the development of a hybrid theoretical model, based on two pre-existing models, for examining curriculum in schools, as it is expressed in artefacts such as scope and sequence documents, as well as through practice and discourse by teachers and students. The research also generated a continuum to measure the effectiveness and extent of curricular change. The combination of these two artefacts provides an instrument for examining and mapping the progress and processes of curricular change with regard to fields such as studies of Asia. The model and other findings from this series of studies also pave the way for further examining the processes and outcomes of curricular change.Doctor of Education (D.Ed.)