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Sedghi, Gita; Rushworth, Elisabeth – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2017
Group working skills are essential attributes for graduates in higher education, and are highly valued by prospective employers of home and international students. With increasing numbers of international students, with different social, cultural, and academic backgrounds, there is an opportunity to evaluate the students' perceptions of, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Teamwork, Cultural Differences, Student Characteristics
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Markovich, Dalya Yafa – Journal of Peace Education, 2015
The private/personal sphere is perceived to be a channel of empowerment that fosters processes of acknowledgment and recognition during encounters between participants from different cultural groups. Drawing on ethnographic research at an inter-cultural program that offered a space for engagement for Palestinian and Jewish educational trainees',…
Descriptors: Arabs, Jews, Ethnography, Role
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Ross, Sabrina N. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This study contributes to research linking diversity and higher education teaching to democratic learning outcomes. It explores processes and outcomes associated with the intergroup contact of Black and White students enrolled in two sections of a diversity education course at a public university in the southeastern United States. The goals of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Diversity, Intergroup Relations, Social Justice
Olsson, Micael – 1985
Intended to help those interested in developing ways of coping effectively with the wide variety of meeting and decision-making styles that are available throughout the world, the booklet integrates a number of ideas and approaches discussed at a recent convention of the Society of Intercultural Education, Training, and Research (SIETAR). An…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness
NAYAR, E.S.K.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL TRAINING, MEDIATOR ORIENTATION, AND TASK CHARACTERISTICS UPON HETEROCULTURAL NEGOTIATION. INDIAN AND AMERICAN SUBJECTS NEGOTIATED CHILD REARING ISSUES UNDER THREE AMERICAN TRAINING CONDITIONS (CULTURE ASSIMILATOR VERSUS TRADITIONAL VERSUS IRRELEVANT TRAINING), THREE MEDIATOR CONDITIONS (HIGH VERSUS…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences
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Harris, Shanette M.; Nettles, Michael T. – New Directions for Student Services, 1991
Investigates interactions between student background characteristics and college entrance criteria and the behaviors that students have in college. Precollege characteristics and college experiences affect student performance and satisfaction, as reported in this study of African American and white students on a predominantly white campus.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Campuses, College Environment