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Jihokorejská kulturní specifika

Kulturní Studia, 2016
This dissertation wants to introduce to the reader the culture specifics of South Korea and their influence on communication with Czech who live in Korea. The reader can find here a basic data about South Korea.
Pavel Hanuš
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Foreign language teaching as foreign culture teaching? The problem of intercultural understanding

Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2020
Foreign language teaching as foreign culture teaching?
Arnd Witte
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

The situated professional: Preservice teachers' profiling of globally competent teachers and visions of their ‘possible professional self’

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to globalisation, teacher education programmes worldwide are tasked with preparing globally competent teachers (GCTs). Prevailing conceptions of global competence are largely derived from Western‐centric humanistic, neoliberal and transformative narratives, creating a complex landscape for teacher identity formation.
Ji Ying
wiley   +1 more source

Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural learning in the context of study abroad a role in second foreign language acquisition [PDF]

, 2008
This study aims to explore the effects of intercultural learning on SLA (Second/Foreign Language Acquisition) by drawing upon quantitative and qualitative research.
Tsai, Yau
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Conflict Management Strategies Among Cohabiting Undergraduate Students in Ilorin, Nigeria

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conflicts among cohabiting partners are often more complex or intractable because their relationships are not formalized culturally or institutionally. The inability to resolve conflicts among cohabiting partners may threaten their safety and well‐being.
Lanre Abdul‐Rasheed Sulaiman, Moshood Issah, Austin A. Ayodele   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Commodities move easily, as can people… but ideas and cultural practices are easier to transplant than translate’: An interview with Nile Green

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Nile Green is a historian of the multiple globalisations of Islam and Muslims. After beginning his career as a historian of India and Pakistan, he has traced Muslim networks that connect Afghanistan, Iran, the Indian Ocean, Africa, Japan, Europe, and ...
Nir Shafir
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What Do We Know About How Companies Manage Waste? The Effect of Tenure and Diversity of Directors on Disclosures

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyze the effect of board tenure on firms' waste management disclosure and explore whether this effect is amplified by board gender and cultural diversity. The analysis is based on data from 832 large firms worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez, Beatriz Aibar‐Guzmán, Salvador Marín‐Hernández, Esther Ortiz‐Martínez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Cultures in Primary Classrooms

WOW Stories, 2012
The Spokane Literacy Community aim to find ways to explore global literature within an international curriculum through the use of Family Story Book bags to promote an exploration of students' personal cultural identities.
Marilyn Carpenter, Lacey Grummons, Janelle Stolp, Lindsay Abbey, Meg Baker, Charlotte Streit   +5 more
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