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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cross-cultural experience"”.
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues and concerns. Aims of the project focused on peripatetic practice as a …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues and concerns. Aims of the project focused on peripatetic practice as a …
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Integrating Language and Content Instruction: A Linguistic and Cultural Guide for Content-Area Teachers of Asian International Secondary School Students in the US
… in their students’ linguistic development and cultural adjustment. The purpose of this project is to provide teachers of content-area classes with an easily accessible professional development opportunity, including tools they need to help their international ESL students achieve linguistic and …
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Teacher Change and a Direct Instruction Reading Approach : A Multiple-Case Study
… this study documented the process of change experienced by four elementary teachers as they learned a direct instruction reading approach. The literature reveals that teacher implementation is affected by psychological state, school climate, and conceptual level; however, the goal of this …
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Lived Experiences of Indian International Students: Migration, Acculturation, and Resilience
… at post-secondary educational institutions across the nation each year (Institute of International Education, 2010). However, research on the effects of migration on international students is relatively devoid of critical explorations on the resilient responses by Indian international …
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EXAMINING THE CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES ENGAGED IN DEVELOPING INDIGENOUS LEADERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
<p>For the past two millennia, missionaries have crossed from one culture to another to bring the Christian message to all cultures of the world. Questions about the effectiveness of these mission efforts have been asked and researched by many; however, one key question remains unanswered: what …
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Cultural Intelligence in Thailand: An Examination of its Antecedents and Consequence
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is one of the most successful development factors that can be employed for expatriate adjustment and performance in cross-cultural settings. Very little research has examined the association between different antecedents and intercultural outcomes through CQ from a …
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Cultivating Global Citizenship? Life In Transit
This study explores my border crossing experience among and between cultures. Although a large portion of my narrative addresses my time living as a Fulbright grantee in Latvia, this study is much more than a solitary six-month sojourn. It is a lifelong journey and an attempt to understand what is …
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Cultural Aesthetic Experience: Perceptions of Learning Developed through Cultural Immersion
This study explored the role of cultural aesthetic expressions (often also referred to in this study as cultural arts) play in perceptions of learning while individuals are in the ongoing process of being immersed in a non-native culture. This inquiry focused specifically on the narratives of seven …
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Different Lattitudes, Different Attitudes: Educator Narratives of a Professional Development in Honduras
… and after a brief professional development experience abroad as they explored what a pedagogy of hope (Freire, 2004; Hooks, 2003) might look like. These five participants traveled to Honduras during the summer of 2009 with Heifer Project International (HPI), a non-profit, non governmental …