Steven T. Duke

Preparing to Study Abroad (eBook, ePUB)

Learning to Cross Cultures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to help you with your own personal journey, and to make your study abroad experience as meaningful, rewarding, and insightful as possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000979497
• Artikelnr.: 68357161

Autorenporträt

Steven T. Duke serves as Executive Director of Global Student/Faculty Development, Research and Risk Management at Wake Forest University. In this role, he coordinates efforts to enhance professional development of faculty, including through the annual WISE Conference. He oversees the Cross-Cultural Engagement Program (CCE) for students and also coordinates risk-management efforts and support for students, faculty and staff who travel abroad. His research areas are: history of education in Russia, particularly during the late tsarist era, 1870's to 1914; history of ethnic minorities in the Russian empire and Soviet Union; history of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland; international education and comparative education. Steve's teaching areas are in Russian and modern European history. Steven S. Reinemund Dean, Wake Forest University School of Business and retired Chairman / CEO, PepsiCo Ken Bouyer Director of Inclusiveness Recruiting at Ernst & Young LLP.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword 1 - Steven S. Reinemund Foreword 2 - Ken Bouyer Preface Introduction 1. What Is Cross-Cultural Engagement? 2. Why Cross-Cultural Engagement Is Often Limited
and Some Strategies to Increase It 3. Visible Dimensions of Culture. Food
Art
Clothing
Music
and Holidays 4. Visible Dimensions of Culture. Infrastructure
Technology
and Shopping 5. Less Visible Elements of Culture. Relationships 6. Less Visible Elements of Culture. Communication Styles
Religion
and Time 7. Your Identity 8. Culture Shock and Cross-Cultural Engagement 9. Additional Student Profiles 10. Conclusions Appendix. Things to Know Before You Go References Index