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Powers, Samantha L.; Trauntvein, Nate E.; Hartman, Cindy L.; Barcelona, Robert J. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
Study abroad provides a unique context in which opportunities for culturally relevant leisure are extremely abundant. These programs provide varying levels of cultural immersion, and culture is inherently connected to leisure. Research has demonstrated relationships between various aspects of study abroad and desired transferable skills such as…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Programs
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Mercer, Lorraine; Carter, Lorraine – Journal of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education, 2018
Student diversity in Canadian universities is rapidly increasing, and faculty and curriculum developers are challenged to transform programs and pedagogies to meet the learning needs of diverse students. While universities across Canada are actively attending to the need for interculturality and diversity in undergraduate education, this same need…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Leadership Training, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Diversity
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Salmona, Michelle; Partlo, Margaret; Kaczynski, Dan; Leonard, Simon N. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study offers a theoretical construct for better understanding how experiential learning enables student teachers to acquire social and cultural variation skills, develop cultural empathy in the K-12 classroom, and the transference of these skills to new educational situations. An Australian and United States research team used a…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Cultural Awareness, Student Teachers, Study Abroad
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Levine, Kenneth J.; Garland, Michelle E. – Journal of International Students, 2015
This paper examines how the study-abroad experience enhances intercultural communication competence. This study used Bennett's (1986, 1993) model of ethnorelative typology of acceptance, adaptation, and integration to explore intercultural communication competency. Central to intercultural communication competency is intercultural sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Intercultural Communication
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Kurpis, Lada Helen; Hunter, James – Journal of Marketing Education, 2017
Business schools can increase their competitiveness by offering students intercultural skills development opportunities integrated into the traditional curricula. This article makes a contribution by proposing an approach to developing students' cultural intelligence that is based on the cultural intelligence (CQ) model, experiential learning…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Cross Cultural Studies
Wade-Leeuwen, Bronwen – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This arts-based research inquiry applies innovative approaches to fostering "creativity" in pre-service primary art teachers during their tertiary training. The main research question investigates how to foster "creativity" in pre-service primary art teachers so they can better mentor the children they teach. I argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Creativity, Preservice Teachers
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Bruguier, Leonard R.; Greathouse Amador, Louise M. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
New learning environments with communication and information tools are increasingly accessible with technology playing a crucial role in expanding and reconceptualizing student learning experiences. This paper reviews the outcome of an innovative course offered by four universities in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs
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Blackburn, Fiona – Australian Library Journal, 2009
What does a newcomer to the library industry bring, at nearly fifty? What does she find? Reflecting on her experience and a recent study tour, the author describes the barely-skilled-although-nominally-qualified challenge; and discusses current cross-cultural provision. She muses on the interplay between a new librarian's fresh eyes, experience…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Awareness, Public Libraries, Library Services
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Allan, Malcolm; Chisholm, Colin U. – Industry and Higher Education, 2008
Engineering organizations are increasingly under pressure to perform more efficiently with fewer people. To manage this, organizations need to understand what skills, knowledge and behaviours they need from engineers who have to practise in a global information society. Engineering educators, in collaboration with employers, therefore now need to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Global Approach, Intercultural Programs, Experiential Learning
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Myers-Lipton, Scott J. – Journal of College Student Development, 1996
Assesses the extent to which students' attitudes toward international understanding are effected by an intensive two-year service-learning program. Research results generally supported the hypothesis that students who are involved in service learning show larger increases in international understanding than students involved in volunteerism or no…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning, Higher Education