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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"global competence"”.
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Educating for global competence: Teachers' perceived barriers to global competence education implementation in a small, rural school district
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Assessing Global Competence and Teamology for Collaborative Engineering
… a need to make measureable improvements to the global competency of engineering students that will enable them to work more effectively with overseas colleagues. However, there are few assessment tools that offer clear guidance on which types of global exposure (coursework, virtual …
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Influences of Cultural Capital and Internationalization on Global Competence: Evidence from China’s Higher Vocational Education
<p>The purpose of the study was to explore global competence-based pedagogy in higher education. Under the umbrella of cultural capital theory and internationalization framework, a systematic literature review analyzed and synthesized 26 empirical studies pertaining to global competence education …
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Urban teachers' understandings and uses of student funds of knowledge in the development of global competence
Global competence--a necessary attribute in an increasingly interconnected world--describes having the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to act creatively and collaboratively on important global issues. In urban settings comprised of racial, ethnic, and/or linguistic-minority students, …
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The Effects of Internationalization Activities on Undergraduates' Global Competence: An Exploratory Study at A Chinese Private University
… changes over the last several decades. Global competence is considered by many organizations and educational practitioners as one of the essential skills and abilities required for young adults to live and work intellectually and cooperatively in today's globalized and intercultural …
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Intercultural Learning Perspectives of World Language Educators in Kentucky
… is the present state of world language teachers’ global competence understanding and what they perceive to be best practices to transmit intercultural competencies to students. Not knowing the best practices is problematic for the school administrators since they are responsible for setting …
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A Case Study of the Internationalization of a Midwestern University English Composition Course Occurring in a 3-D Virtual Environment
… at American universities in an effort to create globally competent graduates who are prepared to be responsible world citizens. Many of these strategies are implemented by faculty members who internationalize their courses by providing opportunities to learn from people from other countries. …
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Learning/Volunteer Abroad (LVA) Programs at the University of Ottawa: An Examination of the Preparation and Training Students Receive Prior to Departure
… students to develop cross-cultural skills and global competence. Universities recognize the value of international experiential learning programs in terms of skills development and career preparation as one component in their internationalization policies and priorities. Scholarly studies on …
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The Global Project: Observing Geographic Literacy Obtained by Study Abroad Learning
… and a cultural assessment tool called the Global Competence Aptitude Assessment – Young Adult version (GCAA-YA). Throughout the study, students showed signs of being geographically informed measured against the National Geography Standards of 1994; however, as illustrated by the GCAA-YA, …
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Performing the new public school: embodied narratives in a Chicago charter school
… charter school, within a cultural imperative for global competence by local government, private-public interventions to stage school reform, and marginalized communities’ participations to achieve educational equality. These new educative spaces, found mostly in underprivileged neighborhoods, …
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Intercultural Communication Competence in upper primary students: International collaboration case studies using Web 2.0 technologies
Globalisation has seen our world become increasingly interconnected through the rapid expansion of digital technologies. Intercultural communication competence is a key aspect of global competence for young people to develop their skills, values and behaviours as global citizens. The rapid …
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Pursuing Intentional Design of Global Engineering Programs: Understanding Student Experiences and Learning Outcomes
As engineering work becomes more globalized, it is important to prepare students to succeed in a global engineering workforce. Prior research has explored different factors important to the design of global programs generally, but less is known about the experiences and learning outcomes of …
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A formative evaluation of a technology-mediated alternative to traditional study abroad
… and the University of Scranton. While studying global health management in Brazil, the group in the field broadcasted their site visits live to online participants back in the United States. Web conferencing tools allowed the online attendees to see and hear the group in Brazil and interact in …