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Michael Thier; Dyana P. Mason; Brittany Mattice – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
Experiential learning has become a fundamental pillar of higher education, particularly in public administration and nonprofit management programmes. This approach purposefully aims to engage learners directly in (a) concrete experiences; (b) focused, personal reflection; (c) abstract conceptualizations and (d) active experimentation. As…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Public Administration
Baracskay, Daniel – Teaching Public Administration, 2021
Diversity, cultural competency, and global awareness are three broad and mutually reinforcing conceptual themes in the literature of American public affairs education that are rarely implicitly interconnected. A primary challenge has concerned how to teach these themes, either separately or in unison, when designing courses and curricula to…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Public Affairs Education, Teaching Methods, Diversity
Annique Petit – ProQuest LLC, 2024
College graduates are expected to acquire certain skill sets that are necessary and sought after by potential employers, as many industries in the United States continue to grow a global footprint. Employers also value good communication skills, and communication classes are a staple of most general education curricula, including those taught on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Community Relationship, Action Research, Cultural Awareness
Rutherford, David J. – Geography Teacher, 2020
World regional geography is one of the most popular and most heavily subscribed geography courses in the United States at both the undergraduate and K-12 levels (Rutherford 2001; Mueller 2003; Bednarz 2004). Yet little consensus exists about the content that the course should include or the approach that should be used to teach it. Debate exists…
Descriptors: World Geography, Geography Instruction, Course Content, Teaching Methods
Jaya Kannan; Sara J. Brenneis; Sanam Nader-Esfahani – CALICO Journal, 2021
The use of digital exhibitions in two advanced language and culture courses within a liberal arts curriculum provides an innovative pedagogical approach to promoting language learning and critical analysis. This article proposes a pedagogy to incorporate Maker-Centered Learning (MCL), the framework that emerged from a Harvard Graduate School of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, French
Nissen, Elke; Felce, Catherine; Muller, Catherine – Research-publishing.net, 2021
What do students expect before starting a Virtual Exchange (VE) with peers? Are their initial expectations mirrored in the final outcomes they perceive after the VE experience? Or, else, do students acknowledge benefits and acquired skills which they did not expect at first? This study draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected across a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, International Educational Exchange, Student Attitudes, Educational Benefits
Adams, Megan; Rodriguez, Sanjuana; Zimmer, Kate – Online Learning, 2018
This study investigated a set of online reading courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in a university's college of education. The courses were thought to integrate culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP), and the study's intent was to determine the extent to which they actually did so. The goals of the study were to determine whether CRP was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cultural Relevance, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Hou, Su-I – Educational Gerontology, 2018
This article introduces a Taiwan Study Abroad program on aging, culture, and healthcare. The program is a short-term academic summer program (6 credits) to bring U.S. students to Taiwan. During 2011 ~ 2015, a total of four groups including over 54 students and faculty members participated. This program partnered with multiple universities,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Aging (Individuals), Program Descriptions, Field Experience Programs
Chachkine, Elsa – Research-publishing.net, 2020
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO, 2019), many of today's skills will not match the jobs of tomorrow. Lifelong learning and learning to learn are thus crucial. The main objective of this exploratory research is to investigate how the social dimension of the Russian course sustains autonomisation and whether it supports the…
Descriptors: Russian, Apprenticeships, Engineering Education, Action Research
Nguyen, Long – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2014
Language education policy needs to be realised in the language classroom. For example, when a specific policy advocates the development of learners' competence in interacting with people from other cultures, classroom teaching practices and assessment have to address learners' intercultural competence. Teachers need to fully understand the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
Basbay, Alper – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Multicultural education includes the design of learning environments according to different cultural characteristics and learners' respectful attitudes towards these characteristics. One of the teachers' expected competencies in multicultural education is recognizing learners' cultural characteristics and being respectful of these during the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Investigations, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Horton-Ikard, RaMonda; Munoz, Maria L.; Thomas-Tate, Shurita; Keller-Bell, Yolanda – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: To provide an overview of a model for teaching a foundational course in multicultural (MC) issues and to demonstrate how it can be modified for use in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) by integrating 3 primary dimensions of cultural competence: awareness, knowledge, and skills. Method: This tutorial begins by establishing the…
Descriptors: Sciences, Universities, Training, Teaching Models
Brown, Warren J. – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2010
Purpose: US community colleges are based on an open-door mission and serve to provide access to students of diverse backgrounds. Online learning is one of the fastest growing segments of community college offerings--serving both local and geographical dispersed students. If the community college system embraces its open-door mission, it must…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, College Students, Curriculum Development, Multicultural Education
Kelner, Shaul; Sanders, George – Teaching Sociology, 2009
A course in the sociology of tourism offers an opportunity to examine a world-transforming force that is penetrating more and more aspects of social life. It also offers an opportunity to create a learning environment that uses the object of study as the medium of study. This article examines how instructors can use tourism to teach the sociology…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Social Life, Tourism, Sociology
Brouse, Corey H. – Health Education Journal, 2007
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine how themes expressed in "The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall," influenced Health Promotion and Wellness students in terms of cultural competence in future practice. Design: This was a cross sectional, qualitative study. Setting: The setting for this study was Oswego, New York…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Health Promotion, Course Objectives, Cultural Awareness