R. Nunez Mahdi - Intercultural sensitivity

Ondertitel: from denial to intercultural comptence

Taal: Engels

Aantal pagina's: 120

"In a rapidly changing educational environment, students need to develop intercultural sensitivity in order to communicate even better with lecturers and students in international classrooms, and to achieve excellence in their future international careers.

Internationalization is high on the agenda of colleges and universities, world wide. Through international exchange programmes, millions of students spend part of their studies at universities abroad every year. Lecturer mobility programmes are bringing foreign lecturers straight into the classrooms. Classrooms are more culturally diverse than ever before.

Research shows that culturally diverse groups are seldom “just average”. They either perform very badly or extremely well. Performance is low when cultural differences are ignored or denied. Culturally diverse groups excel when differences are recognised and managed as valuable sources of innovation and growth...