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Action Learning in Japan: Challenging Cultural Values
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Hirose, Yayoi – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
This study aims to address how practitioners successfully implement action learning in organizations with different cultural values. To effectively adopt action learning, Japanese learners need to learn questioning skills, as they have been brought up in an atmosphere that negates questioning. Using Kolb's learning model, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Asian Culture, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Teaching and Learning in Kenya: Examining the Shifts in Cultural Learning of Experienced Educators
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Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
This qualitative case study examined the cultural learning insights of four educators during and after an immersion experience in Kenya. During this experience the participants delivered professional development sessions to teachers in two rural Kenyan schools, and stayed with Kenyan families. Mezirow's transformational learning theory,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Undergraduate Students
A Chinese Young Adult Non-Scientist's Epistemologies and Her Understandings of the Concept of Speed
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Cao, Ying; Brizuela, Barbara M. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
Past research has investigated students' epistemologies while they were taking courses that required an integrated understanding of mathematical and scientific concepts. However, past studies have not investigated students who are not currently enrolled in such classes. Additionally, past studies have primarily focused on individuals who are…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Asians, Adult Learning, Cultural Differences
Teaching across Borders: Business as Usual?
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Allen, Bobbe McGhie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The quest to comprehend how cultural differences can impact learning is one of those intriguing challenges that continue to beguile some scholars and educational leaders even at a time that is characterized as globalized. This dissertation is a qualitative case study about teaching to culturally diverse populations and is primarily based on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Cultural Differences, Learning Processes, Context Effect
Youth Debriefing Diversity Workshops: Conversational Contexts that Forge Intercultural Alliances across Differences
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Quijada, David Alberto – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2009
This article examines how an ethnically diverse group of youth critically debriefs their facilitation of diversity workshops for other youth. Using naturally occurring tape-recorded conversations and a critical ethnographic and discourse analysis perspective, the article examines youth's contributions towards a participatory process of learning,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Workshops, Learning Processes, Intercultural Programs
Global Organizations and E-Learning: Leveraging Adult Learning in Different Cultures
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Nathan, Edward P. – Performance Improvement, 2008
This article examines a number of issues regarding the leveraged use of global training within multinational organizations. Given a common purpose and using technology that may minimize cultural differences, is it possible for these organizations to overcome some of the cultural barriers to adult learning? In examining this concept, this article…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cultural Differences, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses