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Handbook of Research on Transnational Higher Education
Approaches combine different understandings resulting from the actors’ entrenchment in different cultures and their adoption of differing values.
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Education and Literature for Development in Responsibility: Partnership Hedges Globalization
Gilbert Ahamer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria & Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria) and Karl A. Kumpfmüller (Graz Univrsity, Austria)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 59
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4458-8.ch027
Abstract
In order to propose quality assurance for cutting-edge transnational higher education management, this chapter first analyzes data on academic developmental journals while making use of the three widely known literature databases ISI Thomson, Scopus, and Google Scholar; the latter analyzed by the software Publish or Perish (PoP). Time series of data for documents and their citations provide indices; this chapter provides as most helpful indices the ISI impact factor, Scopus SNIP, and PoP AW index. A dozen of the most influential developmental journals are heuristically ranked by taking into account all available indices from all three literature databases. The series of historic bibliometric data since the 1950s shows the dynamics of the global emergence of developmental journals and developmental thought. Secondly, and as a possible template for similar initiatives in global higher education management, this chapter presents the recently established “Global Studies” (GS) Master’s curriculum at Graz University, Austria. Details on this novel curriculum’s targets, modules, courses, and practicals are given. GS embraces six modules and courses from different schools at university. Emphasis is placed on dialogic interdisciplinary understanding and interparadigmatic integration of multiple disciplines and perspectives, when managing education for the purpose of responsibly hedging and managing globalization and socio-economic global change in responsible partnership.
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Quality Assurance in Transnational Education Management: The Developmental “Global Studies” Curriculum
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Exploring International Educators' Learning About Local and Global Social Justice in a Virtual Community of Practice
Competence: A person’s ability to understand one’s and other’s culture, communicate effectively with people of different cultural backgrounds; being open and empathetic towards others’ cultural practices.
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Intercultural Communication
Inclusive of people from different backgrounds, whether these be national, regional, educational, social, religious or ethnic, as well as of different genders, sexual orientation and physical abilities. Not the same as ‘international’.
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English-Medium Instruction for the Tertiary Level in a Multilingual and Multicultural Context
Occurring between people of different cultures including different religious groups or people of different national origins, involving two or more cultures.
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Socio-Intercultural Entrepreneurship Capability Building and Development
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ICTs in Schools and Their Relationship with Indigenous Communities of Patagonia
Characteristic of the interaction between two or more cultures.
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Developing a Cross-Disciplinary Framework for Collaborative Research in Multi- and Intercultural Education
The integration of perspectives from different cultures in order to generate a common understanding.
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International Digital Studies Approach for Examining International Online Interactions
Situations where individuals from different cultures interact with or exchange information with one another; interchangeable with the term “cross-cultural.”
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Quality Assurance for a Developmental “Global Studies” (GS) Curriculum
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Rationale and Risk Considerations: Establishing Transnational Higher Education Provisions or International Branch Campuses Abroad
The dynamics involved when people with different lived experiences (cultures) interact. The meaning of this term is derived directly from its components: ‘inter’ and ‘culture’. ‘Inter’ refers to between, while ‘culture’ is considered to reflect the lived experiences of an individual based on associations with a language, ethnicity, and nationality, as examples. Although ‘intercultural’ is often treated as a synonym for ‘cross-cultural’, this is not entirely accurate.
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