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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"intercultural contact"”.
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Intercultural contact and the creation of Albany's new diplomatic landscape, 1647--1680
<p>This dissertation analyzes the process of Albany's rise to the center of American Indian-European relations on the northeast coast of North America between the years 1647--1680. By the year 1677 the Albany courthouse served as the meeting place for the negotiations that formed the Covenant Chain …
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'We know them, but we don't know them': a grounded theory approach to exploring host students' perspectives on intercultural contact in an Irish university
This study is concerned with intercultural relations among students in an Irish university. Specifically, the study explores host culture students’ perceptions of cultural difference within the student body and their experiences of intercultural contact on campus, including the factors which inform …
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An Examination of Chinese Private College Students’ Intercultural Competence
… “global-ready” graduates, developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) has become one of the core missions of international and Chinese higher education institutions. Given the scarcity of quantitative studies<strong> </strong>on Chinese private college students’ IC and inconsistent …
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Design and evalutation of an intercultural training program : impacts on student development
<p>The following study evaluates the impacts intercultural training has on student development of global perspective and of intercultural competence, on social support networks of international students, and on internationalization goals at a community college in Southern California. Data reveals …
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Dealing with cultural diversity: An empirical test of a causal model of intergroup relations
… integration of some variables related to the contact hypothesis (Amir, 1969; Miller & Brewer, 1984). A subset of the variables and their inter-relations described by Triandis (1992) was tested using a structural equation modelling approach. Specifically, the study looked at perceived cultural …
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Exploring Social Identity and the Acculturation Process of Venezuelan Undergraduate Students at a Midwestern U.S. University
… experience acculturative stress as a result of intercultural contact and manage this stress by both retaining and forming social identities with co-national and host national social groups within the new sociocultural context of the U.S.
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INTERNATIONAL CHINESE AND CANADIAN STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AT A CANADIAN UNIVERSITY
… of higher education impacts students’ intercultural relations, identities, intercultural sensitivity, critical understandings, and notions of citizenship. A postcolonial perspective is used to explore how students perceive the influences of globalization. Contemporary ideological …
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Disentangling universal and cultural-specific risks to mental health among Asian Americans: A multi-site longitudinal investigation
… conflict related to acculturation mismatch—where intercultural contact leads parents and offspring to diverge in heritage and mainstream American values and behaviors—is specific to immigrant families. Although development-based conflict does not result in serious psychological distress or …
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Teaching Symbolic Rhetoric for Multicultural Education
… New conditions of rapid cultural change, intercultural engagement, and the instability of traditional notions of identity require of multiculturalism that it be able to account for emergent transcultural and intercultural identities and well as the hybridization of the systems of norms …
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Meeting the Self and the Other: Intercultural Learning During a Faculty-led Short-term Service-Learning Course to Belize
Cross-cultural knowledge and intercultural competence are highly valued qualities for 21st-century American college and university graduates, as these institutions endeavor to prepare students to live and work in an increasingly multicultural society. This task offers both a challenge and an …
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Change & continuity in the value-priorities of school-leavers in Rundu (Namibia): a comparative study of hybridization and its development implications
In Southern Africa, burgeoning intercultural contact results in the emergence of (bicultural) sociocultural contexts which emphasize African traditional and Western industrial values to different degrees. In transitioning between these contexts, Southern Africans may experience feelings of …
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A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America
… explorers and Indigenous peoples during early contact and offer a unique glimpse at the mechanics of how this nonverbal communication functioned. Despite its centrality to understanding early contact, studies specifically focused on the initial experiments with nonverbal communication are rare. …