Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education (Hardcover)

List of Contributors Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education; D.Palfreyman PART 1: ISSUES Preface to Part 1: Issues in Multicultural Tertiary Education; D.Palfreyman Cross-Cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities; G.Apfelthaler, K.Hansen, S.Keuchel, C.Mueller, M.Neubauer, Siow Heng Ong & N.Tapachai Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK; I.C.L.Ng Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom; N.Y.Collings Perception of 'Self' and 'Other': Social Boundaries That Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse U.S. Classrooms; S.Ituarte & G.Davies Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power; C.Manathunga Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers' Assumptions of 'The Asian Learner'; C.Doherty & P.Singh Cross-Cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: A Critical View of Dialogue; A.Jones & K.Jenkins PART 2: PRACTICE Preface to Part 2: Practice in the Multicultural Tertiary Classroom; D.L.Mcbride One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context; L.Smith Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalising the Curriculum Through Students' Interactions; S.Eisenchlas & S.Trevaskes Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context; J.C.Cronje Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: The German 'Wald' and the Canadian 'Forest'; U.Schuetze Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking; R.Kristensen, E.Kallstrom & J.A.Svenkerud Teaching Bioinformatics: Using Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences; N.Palfreyman References Index