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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.
Culture Bump: An Instructional Process for Cultural Insight
Culture Bump: An Instructional Process for Cultural Insight
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
Although Edward Hall's early insight into the dilemma of culture, communication, and understanding has underpinned much of the research in the fields of diversity, multicultural education, and cross-cultural and intercultural communication, James Groccia's (see Chapter 1, this volume) model of teaching and learning delineates the relationship between the variables in effective college teaching. This chapter clarifies Hall's two fundamental insights while applying culture bump ...
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