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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet, Julia M. Rohrer, Ruben C. Arslan   +2 more
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“It was like a mental Erasmus!” Perceptions of language learning and intercultural understanding in an e-tandem virtual exchange

Journal of Virtual Exchange
Previous research focusing on e-tandem virtual exchanges where learners practice each other’s languages has examined mainly aspects related to form-focused interaction, linguistic development, and intercultural competence (see Akiyama & Cunningham, 2018,
Laia Canals
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Intercultural Polylogues in Philosophy [PDF]

, 2006
Statement to Panel "Intercultural Dialogue", 29th Wittgenstein-Conference of the ALWS Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 11th 2006. Other statements, in the order of contribution, have been given by: Mohammed Shomali (Qom, Iran), Patrick Riordan SJ (London, UK)
Wimmer, Franz Martin
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Foreign Language Learners’ Perception of their Intercultural Competence and their Language Performance [PDF]

, 2013
Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego ...
Piątkowska, Katarzyna
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
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Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones, Miriam Ham, Karena Menzie‐Ballantyne   +2 more
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國民小學英語教科書中「世界觀」議題之評析 The Treatment of Global Issues in Elementary School EFL Textbooks

臺灣教育社會學研究, 2013
二十一世紀是世界相互仰賴存在的時代，各國間政治、經濟、科技、旅遊、教育等各方面往來密切，形成「地球村」，因而世界觀教育推廣是勢在必行。本研究旨在探討國民小學（後稱國小）英語教科書如何呈現世界觀議題。針對國小三種不同出版國小英語教科書⎯⎯「何嘉仁版」、「佳音版」及「康軒版」（按筆畫順序）進行分析，研究方法採用教科書內容分析，針對每一版本進行三大主題（包括全球事務與問題、跨文化瞭解及世界公民責任）與兩個類目（包括內容與圖片）分析。研究結果發現，三版本中皆有篇幅涵蓋「世界觀」議題，但是大部分以「跨文化瞭解 ...
蘇雅珍 Ya-Chen Su
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“Stepping out of My Comfort Zone!” Learning Intercultural Communication through an Ethnographic Project [PDF]

, 2017
As a means of enhancing students’ intercultural communication competence, as well as applying key concepts of intercultural communication, this activity uses an ethnographic approach in order to make students appreciate various ways people differ from ...
Hu, Yifeng
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Colonial differences in intercultural education: on interculturality in the Andes and the decolonization of intercultural dialogue [PDF]

, 2017
This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted
Aman, Robert
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