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Contacts and Contrasts in Cultures and Languages
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Intercultural Studies in Higher Education: Policy and Practice
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Online Intercultural Education and Study Abroad: Theory into Practice
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Leadership
Intercultural Communicative Competence in Educational Exchange: A Multinational Perspective
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...
Category: Communication, Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Intercultural Dialogue: Questions of research, theory, and practice
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural...
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Management
Developing Intercultural Practice: Academic Development in a Multicultural and Globalizing...
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Approaches, Assessment and Application
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures (Security and Professional Intelligence Education...
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course
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...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching
Experiences of Immigrant Professors: Challenges, Cross-Cultural Differences, and Lessons for...
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...
Category: Cross Cultural, Culture Shock, Education, School & Teaching, Transition
Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the ABCs: A...
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and...
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...
Category: Communication, Education, School & Teaching
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural...
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....
Category: Education, School & Teaching
Cross-Cultural Research Methods
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books
Doing Cross-Cultural Research
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Political & Social Sciences
Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
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...
Category: Communication & Branding, Education, School & Teaching
Consciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Psychology & Counselling
Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Psychology
Developing Cross-Cultural Competence: A Guide for Working With Children and...
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...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Education, School & Teaching
Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education
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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching
