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Yaghoubi Jami, Parvaneh; Mansouri, Behzad; Thoma, Stephen J.; Han, Hyemin – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
The extent to which individuals with a variety of cultural backgrounds differ in empathic responsiveness is unknown. This article describes the differences in trait empathy in one independent and one interdependent society (i.e., the US and Iran, respectively). The analysis of data collected from self-reported questionnaires answered by 326 adults…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Empathy, Personality Traits, Cultural Background
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Meyer, Joshua; Ewbank, Ann Dutton; Ellsworth, Ann – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2019
Study abroad is a popular enrichment of the U.S. postsecondary academic experience with short-term programs providing a cost-effective opportunity to enhance student international travel experiences. In this review, we critically examine a U.S. program we led to Finland with the goal of identifying the pedagogical features from that program that…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
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Paliyeva, Tatyana V. – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2019
The article analyses the conceptual foundations of polycultural education, both from a global philosophical and pedagogical point of view and using the example of the peculiarities of polycultural education in the Republic of Belarus. (The term "polycultural education" is understood in a similar way to "multicultural education"…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Diversity, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Zawacki-Richter, Olaf, Ed.; Qayyum, Adnan, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Open and Distance Education, 2019
This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of the national higher education systems in these countries. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Tracy Evian Waasdorp; Amanda J. Nguyen; Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis; Catherine P. Bradshaw – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2019
Although bullying is increasingly researched in the USA, there remains a limited study of bullying among Mexican youth. To address this gap, the present study compared bullying dynamics across the two countries, with a specific focus on Latinx youth in the US and Mexican youth. Data come from a large school-based survey of 3030 US self-identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Cultural Differences, Hispanic Americans
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Elizabeth Keating – New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction, 2019
This chapter discusses learning and communication in groups of engineers working together designing complex projects from four world areas. Challenges in such global teams are based both in cultural differences and in properties of the technological environment. Though the engineers had mastered complex engineering models, most did not have…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cooperation, Engineering, Global Approach
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Crampton, Anne; Lewis, Cynthia – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to discuss the ethical and political possibilities offered by the presence of teaching artists (TAs) and visual artwork in racially and culturally diverse high school literacy (English Language Arts) classrooms. Design/methodology/approach: This study explores episodes from two separate ethnographic studies that were…
Descriptors: Artists, Teaching Methods, Visual Arts, Language Arts
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Ernovilinda – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2020
Language is a communication tool for every human being and is used to convey ideas, messages, intentions, feelings, opinions to others or even to meet daily needs. Intercultural communication is a communication that frequently occurs in the community. Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that discusses aspects of language as a communication tool.…
Descriptors: Films, Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Intercultural Communication
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Tecedor, Marta; Vasseur, Raychel – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This manuscript contributes to the existing body of literature on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the context of computer-mediated communication by examining how fourth-semester learners of Spanish (n = 18) display and develop ICC over the course of a semester. Novel to this study are: (1) the use of service-provider virtual…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Spanish
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Schmidt, Stephen R.; Qiao, Lijuan – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Memory for public events was compared across Chinese and U.S. participants to explore competing explanations for cultural differences in flashbulb memories. Participant recall of the canonical features of events was more detailed and more likely to include a specific time in the United States than in the Chinese reports. Vividness was positively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Memory, Recall (Psychology)
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King Ramírez, Carmen – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an education model that provides a framework for international academic exchanges. Though COIL projects outline some best practices for academic partnerships, there are still several areas of project development in which participating faculty must make important decisions that affect the…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Kudo, Kazuhiro; Volet, Simone; Whitsed, Craig – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
This qualitative study scrutinised the experiences of intercultural relationship development between international and domestic students at two Japanese private universities, which have contrastive degrees of commitment to internationalisation in regard to stated vision, curriculum, international student enrolment and languages of instruction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Foreign Students, College Students
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
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Stark, Tobias H.; Silber, Henning; Krosnick, Jon A.; Blom, Annelies G.; Aoyagi, Midori; Belchior, Ana; Bosnjak, Michael; Clement, Sanne Lund; John, Melvin; Jónsdóttir, Guðbjörg Andrea; Lawson, Karen; Lynn, Peter; Martinsson, Johan; Shamshiri-Petersen, Ditte; Tvinnereim, Endre; Yu, Ruoh-rong – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Questionnaire design is routinely guided by classic experiments on question form, wording, and context conducted decades ago. This article explores whether two question order effects (one due to the norm of evenhandedness and the other due to subtraction or perceptual contrast) appear in surveys of probability samples in the United States and 11…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Format, Generalization, Foreign Countries
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Purinton, Ted – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
The international education community has long recognized the unique and important contribution that American-style institutions, such as the American University in Beirut, play in the quality of education offered around the world (Bertelsen, 2012). Not as well recognized, however, are institutions across the globe that adopt American or Western…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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