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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

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,...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Race

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...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Latest Books, Transition

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...
Category: Diversity, Education, School & Teaching

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

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

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

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...
Category: Character, Virtue & Habits, Education, School & Teaching

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’, 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

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 Settings makes an important contribution to the fields of multiculturalism and qualitative research methods. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Management

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 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

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

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

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

The terms gender, careers and inequalities were chosen to delineate the conceptual framework of this book - the second volume of a new series focused...
Category: Asian Studies, Education, School & Teaching

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 critically examines and advances new methods and practices for adapting tests for cross-cultural assessment and research. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Psychology

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

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