Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-14
Cross-cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities....Pages 15-35
Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK....Pages 36-54
Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom....Pages 55-73
Perception of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Social Boundaries that Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse US Classrooms....Pages 74-92
Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power....Pages 93-113
Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers’ Assumptions of ‘The Asian Learner’....Pages 114-132
Cross-cultural Engagement in Higher Education Classrooms: a Critical View of Dialogue....Pages 133-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-157
One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context....Pages 158-176
Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalizing the Curriculum through Students’ Interactions....Pages 177-192
Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context....Pages 193-212
Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: the German ‘Wald’ and the Canadian ‘Forest’....Pages 213-228
Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking....Pages 229-242
Teaching Bioinformatics: Using Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences....Pages 243-259
Back Matter....Pages 260-282