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Hall, Gloria F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Globalization in post-secondary education curricula is the focus of this study. An unnamed post-secondary institution local to the area of Dade County, Florida, was the setting of this case study. The setting was chosen for its diversity, program curriculum, and location. In this study, I will assess the importance of and critique globalization…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Postsecondary Education, College Curriculum, Case Studies
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Na-on, Rungrudee; Jaturapitakkul, Natjiree – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2017
The aim of this study is to identify cohesion in the research project abstracts of Thai EFL engineering undergraduate students and to determine the writing patterns of their abstracts. Thirty-nine abstracts (200-300 words in length) from the faculty of Engineering in three different disciplines of the International Program were compiled and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Documentation
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Shahjahan, Riyad A.; Morgan, Clara; Nguyen, David J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Amid growing debates around international assessment tools in educational policy, few have critically examined how students themselves are cast in policy tool production processes and discourse. Drawing on Stuart Hall's concept of representation, we show how higher education (HE) "students" are constructed, fixed and normalized by the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Tests, Evaluation Methods, International Programs
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Chang, Wei-Wen; Chen, Cheng-Hui Lucy; Huang, Yu-Fu; Yuan, Yu-Hsi – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
Empirical studies have found that participation in international service increases learners' intercultural competence, language skills, appreciation of cultural differences, and tolerance for ambiguity. While previous studies suggest that international service experience is potentially transformative in nature, the present study examined…
Descriptors: Service Learning, International Programs, Transformative Learning, Social Psychology