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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Writing for the U.S. University
Writing for the U.S. University
Several of the contributors in this volume have described philosophies, religious traditions, and cultural values they would like us to understand so we can appreciate their influence on teaching and learning in the global community. Surely, readers have noticed some intriguing similarities among these traditions as well as some important differences. But I'd like to take us further than that. I'm going to make a huge generalization—backed up by evidence in the fields of cross-cultural communication, second language writing, and contrastive rhetoric—that the cultures of the world majority, that is, the people of color throughout the world, value similar styles of communication and human interaction, and that these styles are sometimes at odds with the values ...
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