Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

by Palfreyman, David; McBride, Dawn

• ISBN13: 9780230542839
• ISBN10: 0230542832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book brings together examples of intercultural practice and research from universities and colleges around the world.

Author Biography

DAVID PALFREYMAN works at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Zayed University, Dubai. His background is in second language education. Before going to Dubai he worked with educators in Turkey and in the UK and taught also in Italy and Spain. His current research interests include the contributions of sociocultural context to university learning, and in particular, how the family and wider discoursal contexts interact with learning. His is the editor, with Richard Smith, of Learner Autonomy Across Cultures, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

DAWN McBRIDE is an Assistant Professor and Pychologist at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, specializing in cross-cultural issues relating to counselling and teaching . She formerly taught in the United Arab Emirates.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Notes on the Editors and Contributors	p. ix
A Note on Terminology	p. xiii
Transcription Conventions	p. xiv
Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education David Palfreyman	p. 1
Issues
Issues in Multicultural Tertiary Education	p. 11
Cross-cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities	p. 15
Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK	p. 36
Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom	p. 55
Perception of 'Self and 'Other': Social Boundaries that Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse US Classrooms	p. 74
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power	p. 93
Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers' Assumptions of 'The Asian Learner'	p. 114
Cross-cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: a Critical View of Dialogue	p. 133
Practice
Practice in the Multicultural Tertiary Classroom	p. 155
One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context	p. 158
Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalizing the Curriculum through Students' Interactions	p. 177
Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context	p. 193
Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: the German 'Wald' and the Canadian 'Forest'	p. 213
Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking	p. 229
Teaching Bioinformatics: LIsing Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences	p. 243
References	p. 260
Index	p. 278
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