Teaching International Students (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Learning for All
Redaktion: Carroll, Jude; Ryan, Janette

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching International Students explores the challenges presented to lecturer and student alike by increased cultural diversity within universities. It is packed with practical advice from experienced practitioners and underpinned by reference to pedagogic theory throughout.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134267781
• Artikelnr.: 38248939

Autorenporträt

Judith Carroll is a Staff and Educational Developer, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. She has extensive experience working in overseas countries and provides staff development on teaching international students to university staff across the United Kingdom. She has published in the area of plagiarism and international students. Dr Janette Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Monash University in Australia. She has researched the experiences of staff and students at universities in the United Kingdom and Australia in relation to the teaching and learning needs of international students, and has written extensively in this area.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION 'Canaries in the coalmine': International students in Western universities
Dr. Janette Ryan and Ms. Jude Carroll SECTION ONE: CULTURAL MIGRATION AND LEARNING Maximising international students' 'cultural capital'
Dr. Janette Ryan and Dr. Susan Hellmundt
Gathering cultural knowledge: Useful or use with care?
Professor Kam Louie
Strategies for becoming more explicit
Ms. Jude Carroll
'Lightening the load': teaching in English
learning in English
Ms. Jude Carroll SECTION TWO: METHODOLOGIES AND PEDAGOGIES Building intercultural competencies: Implications for academic skills development
Dr. Patricia McLean and Ms. Laurie Ransom
Writing in the International Classroom
Ms. Diane Schmitt
Fostering intercultural learning through multicultural group work
Mr. Glauco deVita
Multicultural groups for discipline-specific tasks: can a new approach be more effective?
Ms Jude Carroll
Improving teaching and learning practices for international students: Implications for curriculum
pedagogy and assessment
Dr. Janette Ryan
Postgraduate supervision
Dr. Janette Ryan SECTION THREE :INTERNATIONALISING THE CURRICULUM Internationalisation of curriculum: An institutional approach
Professor Graham Webb
Internationalisation of the curriculum: teaching and learning
Dr. Betty Leask
Postgraduate research: the benefits for institutions
supervisors and students of working across and between cultures
Associate Professor James Sillitoe
Ms. Janis Webb and Ms. Christabel Ming Zhang
Collaborating and co-learning: sharing the message on teaching international students within institutions
Ms Lee Dunn and Ms. Jude Carroll
The student experience: challenges and rewards
Dr. Janette Ryan