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Learning Marketing in a Multicultural Context

2020
There has been an increasing degree of internationalization of several higher education institutions mainly under the ERASMUS context. Those mobility programs bring important gains in terms of students' competences to the Higher Education Institutions and to the employers, but there are also many constraints associated with the student's mobility ...
Xara-Brasil, Duarte, Carvalho, Manuela, Nunes, Sandra Cristina Dias   +2 more
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Watching and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms

The Educational Forum, 1997
1This article was prepared while the first author researched at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
Julia Johnson Rothenberg, Sandra Cassant
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Embracing Multiculturalism in Nursing Learning Environments

Journal of Nursing Education, 2010
This article outlines the disparities that exist in educational opportunities for ethnic minorities in both higher education and nursing programs. Barriers exist for ethnic minorities that are directly related to students’ circumstances and factors related to faculty and universities. There are multiple strategies that can be implemented by faculty and
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Cooperative Learning and Multicultural Classrooms

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1993
Cooperative learning during the past decade has been a popular educational approach with many middle and secondary educators and learners. It provides a viable alternative to traditional lectures, ability grouping, and competition among students. Learners appreciate the increased academic achievement and social interaction that come from working ...
M. Lee Manning, Robert Lucking
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Learning to be literate: multicultural perspectives

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
Learning to be literate: multicultural perspectives, by Viv Edwards, Bristol, UK, Multilingual Matters, 2009, vii + 142 pp., US$19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-84769-060-6 The increasing mobility of ...
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Interactive Learning in a Multicultural Setting

Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry, 2006
Learning occurs in a cultural context. In the 1950s, educators and anthropologists started to evaluate educational systems within their cultural context. Educator David Kolb (1984) proposed a theory of experiential learning based on structures of social knowledge and preferred learning styles.
Cathy A. Beck, Marla Campbell
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Life and Learning in a Multicultural World

2021
In this chapter, I draw the stories in the previous chapters together to highlight and discuss the different notions of life and learning in the context of people experiencing a rapidly changing world. I also argue for the relevance of personal stories for understanding public issues in the bigger social context.
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Formal and informal learning experiences in multicultural scopes

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality, 2013
The development of intercultural and multicultural competences and skills on lifelong learning processes has yet to be achieved, this means that main changes of paradigm still need to take place. Particularly in the field of education, it is necessary to move from traditional canons to open processes of creative interaction and build bridges by ...
Francisco J. García-Peñalvo, Alicia García-Holgado, Juan Cruz-Benito   +2 more
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Learning Styles in Multicultural Classrooms

2007
The construct of learning style is at the very centre of current pedagogical thought, with over 300 studies using ‘learning style’ in lists of keywords in the period 2000–06 (Thompson Scientific 2006). Learning style indexes and inventories represent attempts to construct tools for getting to grips with learners’ sensory characteristics and their ...
Tony Young, Itesh Sachdev
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Critical Multiculturalism and Service Learning

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
AbstractThe author discusses how critical multiculturalism may be used to inform service learning, offering as an example the case study of a service learning project in which college students work with homeless citizens in Washington, D.C.
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