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Julie Ficarra – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2025
As primary architects of the 'global classroom,' local faculty who teach visiting U.S. students at study abroad centers across Europe play a critical role in the study abroad experience. This article draws on theories of commodification in study abroad as well as transformative learning theory to unpack how and why local faculty bend to the U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Study Abroad, Foreign Students
Shuqin Xu – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
University students' collaborative learning, particularly groupwork, has been more often investigated in Western settings than in countries that have borrowed this Western pedagogy. This qualitative study re-examines Chinese university students' groupwork responses regarding their expectations, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. Their…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Barriers, Foreign Countries
Anne Pirrie; Caroline Ainslie – Scottish Educational Review, 2025
This article is a cross-border adventure in two senses of the term. Firstly, it is an adventure in co-authorship that exemplifies how Dewey conceptualises education, namely as a 'continuous reconstruction of experience'. Secondly, it explores the limitations of a restricted definition of 'professionalism', particularly when the term is applied in…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Teaching Methods
Guangxiang Liu; Chaojun Ma; Jie Bao; Zhixin Liu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Utilizing a structural equation modeling approach, this article aims to examine the dynamics between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and Intercultural Competence (ICC). Altogether, 1490 Chinese college students from different types of universities in China answered the self-developed and validated IDLE-ICC questionnaire. The results…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
Elmasry, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As more countries import western curriculums, there is a concern that western curriculum offers an individual cultural approach that fails to reach Saudi Arabian students from collective cultures. With expectations for performing academic work unfamiliar to Saudi Arabian students, many students may resort to academic dishonesty to avoid failure.…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Hamza R'boul; Benachour Saidi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Critical discourses in intercultural communication (IC) scholarship continue to foreground the postcolonial malaise of Southern spaces. Intercultural communication education (ICE) may encounter some pedagogical challenges in its endeavour to reflect the complexity and depth of the discipline and its recent critical turn. This paper seeks to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Postcolonialism, Teaching Methods, Barriers
Jeffery, Thomas S. – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigates key cultural differences in teaching between Korean and "western" teachers, and analyses these via questionnaires given to 35 Korean teachers and 36 non-Korean teachers followed by selected interviews. A significant finding was the emphasis Korean teachers place on testing compared to the "Western"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Teacher Characteristics, Confucianism
Harner, John – Geography Teacher, 2020
For educators creating a new course on the geography of food (or perhaps food and agriculture), the options can be overwhelming. The decisions about what topics to cover, which books to assign, and how assignments can be structured might overwhelm all but the most hearty instructors. The topic of food touches on so many other geographic…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Food, Agriculture, Course Content
Eppard, Jenny; Bailey, Fatima; McKeown, Kara; Singh, Herveen – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The higher education system in the United Arab Emirates is loosely based on models developed in many Western countries. Expatriate faculty members trained in Western universities are often times recruited to teach at government or public universities. Confusion often arises when faculty members expect similar learning patterns and values which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, College Students
Zhu, Haiping; O'Sullivan, Helen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
China is the leading source of international students for the UK. However, there are many differences between Chinese and UK classroom culture; for example, Chinese students may do well in tests and assignments in class, but they are very quiet and are often reluctant to speak up within the classroom environment. This silent behaviour can be a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Cultural Differences, Educational Experience
Daouk, Lina; Al Hashlamoun, Nafeth Hamdi; Ezzat, Mai – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
The slow adoption of e-learning in Higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been attributed to many Information Technology (IT) success factors or factors related to the management of IT. While many researchers were able to identify legitimate factors that have an impact on the adoption of e-learning, the impact…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Females
Li, Hanwei – Frontiers of Education in China, 2019
It has been recognized that international students studying in non-Anglophone countries face more challenges in integrating into local higher education institutions for a number of reasons, such as the local language barrier and cultural differences. This study aims to understand the challenges and coping strategies of academic integration in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Barriers, Coping, Foreign Countries
Gupta, Anuj; Dasgupta, Anannya – Composition Studies, 2021
As writing pedagogy gains distinct footholds in university classrooms in India, it is worth retracing some of its steps to the shaping influence of composition pedagogies in the United States. In this article, the authors recount their experiences of using the concept of conversation to enable academic writing in their classrooms. Each narrative…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Academic Language, Cultural Differences
Wang, Li – Research in Dance Education, 2021
In internationalised dance education, many teachers undertake inclusive philosophies and identify themselves as inclusive educators. But there may be possible differences between theories in minds and practices in studios, leading to the research inquiry: How might dance teachers' teaching practices for international students extend from their…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Students
Hecht, Julia; Kahrens, Marion – Tertiary Education and Management, 2021
One of the effects of globalization in Higher Education is that teachers in institutions and faculties increasingly come from diverse cultural backgrounds. This study provides insights into implications of cultural differences in the Higher Education sector in Great Britain. A case study approach was applied in order to analyze the impact of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Teaching Styles