ERIC Number: ED654534
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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Ensuring Intercultural Diversity through the VNC104 Student Exchange Program
Chi Hong Nguyen; Danh Thanh Ly
International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, Paper presented at the International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) (Cappadocia, Turkey, May 18-21, 2023)
Target 4.7 in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) aims to ensure that education is equally accessible to all genders who are taught to appreciate human rights and cultural diversity as global citizens. Understanding and sympathy for intercultural differences become important in higher education. With a focus on the foundations and dimensions of Vietnamese culture, the course VNC104 (Vietnamese Culture) allows lecturers to meet Target 4 in SDG4 in some ways. Advancing students' understanding and sympathy for intercultural diversity requires lecturers to involve them in activities that are socially constructed. It is argued in this paper that socially constructed knowledge can be absorbed through the body and mind. Bodily engagement, environment, task integration, and use of objects play a vital role in this process. The world is not simply understood by the working mechanism in our brains. Nevertheless, it must be felt and sensed. In this paper, the authors combine embodiment with Bloom's taxonomy to increase students' cognitive development through the connection between the mind and body. The combination of these theories has the potential to link social constructivism to students' bodily engagement in the world through cognitive processes. It also develops an innovative approach to establishing an organic rapport with students of diverse backgrounds and ensuring education quality for global citizenship. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Exchange Programs, Sustainable Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Course Descriptions, Cultural Pluralism, Vietnamese People, Teaching Methods, Taxonomy, Cognitive Development, Human Body, Metacognition, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Quality, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Lesson Plans, Asian Culture
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Identifiers - Location: Vietnam
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