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Levitt, Steven R. – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
This study explores cultural factors affecting international team dynamics and the implications for industry practice and higher education. Despite decades of studying and experience with cultural diversity, international work groups continue to be challenged by ethnocentrism and prejudices. Central to the context is that cultural differences in…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Barriers, Intercultural Communication, Higher Education
Ogden-Barnes, Stephen; Menzies, Jane L. – Higher Education Review, 2016
We focus on cross-cultural team effectiveness for MBA students involved in an immersion program, examining the development of knowledge about cultural traits, the challenges associated with teamwork, and factors that promote or hinder team performance, based on qualitative results of a survey of 20 students who participated in the program. Key…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Ethnocentrism, Immersion Programs, Graduate Students
Pajo, Bora; Cohen, David – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2013
An enduring controversy over the nature of ADHD complicates parents' decisions regarding children likely to be diagnosed with the condition. Using a fallibilist perspective, this review examines how researchers construe ADHD and acknowledge the controversy. From a systematic literature search of empirical reports using parents of ADHD-diagnosed…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Researchers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis
Brookfield, Stephen – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
Adult education scholarship has been racialized through the lens of Eurocentric theory and research. Theoretical paradigms such as Africentrism struggle to gain academic legitimacy as discourses of transformative learning, critical thinking and self-direction--all grounded in the European Enlightenment tradition of the individual pursuit of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Racial Bias, Social Attitudes, Minority Groups
Watt, Carey A. – Journal of General Education, 2012
In this article, the author investigates the role that world history might play in reshaping the liberal arts to better serve a twenty-first-century world that is increasingly interconnected, plural, and "globalized." While "Western civ" courses and perspectives are much less influential today than they were in the first seven decades of the…
Descriptors: World History, Role, Educational Change, Liberal Arts
Brendel, Nina; Aksit, Fisun; Aksit, Selahattin; Schrüfer, Gabriele – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2016
As a response to the intercultural challenges of Geography Education, this study seeks to determine factors fostering intercultural competence of student teachers. Based on a one-week multicultural field excursion of eight German and eight Turkish students in Kayseri (Turkey) on Education for Sustainable Development, we used qualitative interviews…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication
Meyer, Kevin R.; Mao, Yuping – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
Previous studies have revealed that American undergraduate students complain about International Teaching Assistants' (ITAs) lack of English proficiency and rate ITAs lower than American Teaching Assistants (ATAs) on teaching evaluations. This study investigates student perceptions of classroom climate to discover how ITAs might overcome students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Colvin, Cassandra; Volet, Simone; Fozdar, Farida – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper examines the intercultural interaction experiences of local, first-year students (n?=?25) in their first few weeks at university. The focus on local students complements existing intercultural interaction literature, which has tended to concentrate on the experience of the "cultural other" student. Employing qualitative…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes, Cultural Pluralism
Živkovic, Nataša Vujisic; Milovanovic, Suncica Macura – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
We discuss here the problems of contemporary educational sciences, which are generated by the pedagogic tradition sustained by ethnocentrism, and by the issues coming from the epistemological-methodological domain. An open question of the common traits in the development of educational sciences, the separated prototypical configurations of the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Ethnocentrism, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
Skiba, Russ; Ormiston, Heather; Martinez, Sylvia; Cummings, Jack – Theory Into Practice, 2016
Psychological science has identified positive classroom management and climate building strategies as a key element in developing and maintaining effective learning environments. In this article, we review the literature that has identified effective strategies that build classroom climates to maximize student learning and minimize disruption. In…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Behavior Modification, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
Grigg, Kaine; Manderson, Lenore – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2015
Existing Australian measures of racist attitudes focus on single groups or have not been validated across the lifespan. To redress this, the present research aimed to develop and validate a measure of racial, ethnic, cultural and religious acceptance--the Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (RACES)--for use with…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Ethnocentrism
Edling, Silvia – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2014
Drawing on ambitions to contest violence in education, this article challenges ideas that student teachers only need to rely on evidence-based theory in their future profession. This is accomplished by analysing and comparing theories of plurality as described in three texts used in courses at one teacher education institution in Sweden. The texts…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teacher Education, Violence, Teacher Expectations of Students
Kirschbaum, Kris; Hall, Bradford J. – Communication Teacher, 2013
This article describes an activity for a course in "Intercultural Communication, Communication and Diversity" that is designed to help students better understand the concept of world views in everyday life. It also provides an understanding of how world views may be connected to values, norms, and ethnocentrism in very personal and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, World Views, Class Activities, College Students
Burwell, Rebecca; Huyser, Mackenzi – Journal of Education & Christian Belief, 2013
This article explores pedagogical approaches to teaching students how to
practice hospitality toward the other. Using case examples from the college
classroom, the authors discuss the roots of Christian hospitality and educational theory on transformative learning to explore how students experience engaging with others after they have…
Descriptors: Christianity, College Students, Classroom Environment, Interpersonal Relationship
Goldstein, Susan B. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2015
Since the early 1960s, there has been a steady increase in the number of students enrolled in institutions of higher education outside of their home countries. This study contributes to the information available to study abroad professionals seeking to guide students in selecting programs that are best suited to their individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Predictor Variables, Preferences, Models