This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in...

Overall Winner of the 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner of the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award In the vein of timely titles such as...

While there is a wealth of scholarship on Africana Education, no single volume has examined the roles of such important topics as Black Male Identity,...

In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book...

This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how...

In this updated 2nd edition, the authors created a blueprint for educational leaders to arrive at an understanding of the complexity of shared leadership for...

This book brings an international perspective of school leadership, but this time, examines how such leadership can have a positive impact on students considered to...

Positive recognition and appreciation can transform your school from a place where people have to work into one where they want to work and enjoy...

Contrasting Arguments presents the variable story of the culture wars and the clash in education from the point of view of the principal actors on the...

In 21 Lessons of Tech Integration Coaching, Martine Brown provides a practical guide about how to use your skills to support and transform schools. In this...

Whether you are you are new to instructional coaching, are a teacher who wants to improve your own practice and share your learning, or are a building or...

Globalization and shifting demographics have led to a call for an immediate change in education-based counseling. Future school counselors must be equipped with 21st century...

How do you create an environment that inspires and motivates teachers and other types of employees to do their jobs? If you know the answer...

The authors offer a framework for conducting applied research that connects practitioner research to theories of transformational leadership and professional development. They show how to...

Although educational reform is intended for positive change, sometimes it misses the mark. With this indispensable guide, stakeholders focused on improving student outcomes – from...

Drawing on the extensive knowledge of experts from nations around the world, the authors provide comprehensive assessments of the challenges and opportunities when dealing with...

This book explores the study of policies and practices in Higher Education by comparing systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results and cultures. In a rapidly changing...

With the increasing focus on international education and study abroad programmes, Online Intercultural Education and Study Abroad meets the need for a text that addresses ways in...

Building Together is a journey focused on the leadership necessary for today’s early childhood education system building. This book provides a road map to what effective...

This is a book for everyone who teaches.  Whether you are responsible for your organization’s training and development, you are providing basic education in an...

This book elaborates on issues regarding alterity, values, and human development in different educational contexts, serving from young children to adolescents to adults, and it...

This book explores the nature of intercultural communicative competence (ICC), a set of abilities required to promote sojourner engagement with diversity during study abroad and...

Intercultural dialogue’, as a concept and ideology in the European Union, stimulates a rational 21st century society where people can engage in (intercultural) communication on...

This best-selling text explores the meaning, necessity, and benefits of multicultural education–in a sociopolitical context–for students of all backgrounds. Sonia Nieto and Patty Bode look...

Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural Settings makes an important contribution to the fields of multiculturalism and qualitative research methods.   The...

Intercultural higher education has the potential to enable diverse students in diverse contexts to lead lives they have reason to value in a multicultural and...

Intercultural Competence in Higher Education features the work of scholars and international education practitioners in understanding the learning outcomes of internationalization, moving beyond rhetoric to concrete...

Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures, Eighth Edition gives students sufficient knowledge, appropriate motivations, and useful skills that enable them to experience how cultural differences can...

National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the work provides...

How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare...

Educational institutions all over the world continue to attract the services of foreign-born scholars. In addition to the culture shock that immigrants experience in unfamiliar...

The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focused...

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New...

A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together...

A bold, brain based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionTo close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally...

As people move into the new era of the twenty-first century, they will have more and more opportunities to communicate and interact with others using...

Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. Rather, it travels the path less followed,...

Short-term mission trips are great ways to impact the kingdom. Yet they can lack effectiveness because of mistakes or naiveté on the part of participants....

The Centers for Austrian Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research since the 1970s, play an important role for the Austrian...

Although intercultural concepts tend to essentialism and reductionism and thus run the risk of constructing artificial ethnic differences and stereotypes, the existing models are quite...

With the rapidly developing globalization of various sectors of modern life, individuals, organizations, and nations are becoming increasingly aware of the ways in which cultural...

A new textbook exploring communication in international management. Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, summarising the key theoretical perspectives and introducing students to the...

Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a...

The Handbook of Intergroup Communication brings together research, theory and application on traditional as well as innovative intergroup situations, exploring the communication aspect of these groups....

To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepare the next generation of teachers with...

Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: Intercultural competence...

Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative...

Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within...

Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue is an international collection by renowned scholars who examine the ideological underpinnings of the European model and its global applications. It explores...

Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying...

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: This book is an...

Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines – «History of Education» and «Intercultural Education» – the contributions to this volume provide...

Maastricht School of Management (MSM) raises the standard of management knowledge among managers and executives with varied cultural and professional backgrounds around the globe. MSM...

Within Australia's education revolution lies another, quieter revolution that attempts to raise the profile and status, and improve the learning outcomes, of Australia's Aboriginal and...

The whole world is talking about globalisation and there are so many versions of it that one might as well not talk about it at...

This book views the international university as a microcosm of a world where internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, but rather with...

It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing...

As university student exchanges provide participants with increasing opportunities to involve themselves in different academic cultures, it has become crucial to gain a better understanding...

This thesis addresses the topic of intercultural education and immigrant integration as it relates to the secondary school system in Germany. Student and teacher surveys...

In today's integrated global economy, technical communicators often collaborate in international production teams, work with experts in overseas subject matter, or coordinate documentation for the...

Despite the central role that intercultural sensitivity plays in foreign student advising, the intercultural sensitivity of foreign student advisors has never been previously been studied....

This book takes a critical look at why issues of language in higher education are routinely marginalised, despite the growing internationalisation of universities. The book...

The papers in this collection have been selected from over 800 presentations given at the XIIIth World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, held at the...

Without ethnography, cross-cultural comparison would not be possible. But without cross-cultural comparison, we would know nothing of what may be universal or variable across human...

The book embraces relational ways of knowing as a foundation for leadership and takes courageous steps by exposing our innermost tensions, dilemmas, and feelings about...

Conducting cross-cultural research is rife with methodological, ethical and moral challenges. Researchers are challenged with many issues in carrying out their research with people in...

The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on...

Consciousness is perplexing: too familiar and intimate to ignore, too complex and elusive to understand. Although consciousness is embedded in all our experience and is...

Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The...

As the U.S. population grows more and more diverse, how can professionals who work with young children and families deliver the best services while honoring...

In this second edition, twenty-nine classic chapters have been revised and updated and twenty new chapters have been added to reflect how the field has...