Darla K. Deardorff

Gebundenes Buch

The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence

Beschreibung

Bringing together leading experts and scholars from around the world, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theories and research on intercultural competence. It will be a useful and invaluable resource to administrators, faculty, researchers, and students. 

Autor

Darla K. Deardorff is currently executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, a national professional organization based at Duke University, where she also teaches cross-cultural courses. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is on faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. She has received numerous invitations from around the world to speak on her research on intercultural competence and assessment and is a noted expert on these topics. With nearly twenty years of experience in the international education field, she has published widely on topics in international education and serves as a consultant and trainer on intercultural competence development and assessment for universities, corporations and non-profit organizations. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an outstanding alumnus award from her undergraduate alma mater as well as a distinguished alumnus award for the department at her graduate alma mater. Dr. Deardorff holds a master's and doctorate from North Carolina State University where she specialized in international education. Her dissertation, on the definition and assessment of intercultural competence, has drawn national and international attention and her intercultural competence models developed through the research are being used by organizations and post-secondary institutions worldwide. She was recently nominated as a "Rising Star in Academia" for the Chronicle of Higher Education and is a Member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research. Her research interests include intercultural competence, outcomes assessment, internationalization, and teacher education. She has lived and worked in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1235g
• ISBN-13: 9781412960458
• ISBN-10: 1412960452
• Artikelnr.: 26441570