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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"intercultural perspective"”.
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Rethinking the cultures of the BRICs : an intercultural perspective
<p>This thesis examines the cultural characteristics of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRIC countries), and the United States, in order to assess what these characteristics mean for U.S. Americans doing business with the BRICs. An in-depth review of the literature, both academic and popular …
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Linguistic Creativity and Professional Discourse Strategies: An Intercultural Perspective
The discourse strategies of teams attempting the same task are compared and contrasted in this study. While a linguistic analysis of business student team meetings cannot provide a business assessment of a team's solution, teams can be comparatively assessed by how they reach their objectives in …
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Teacher education and competence in an intercultural perspective: some reflections in Brazil and the UK
… theory approach, in which the concept of intercultural perspective is understood in the scope of the study. A parallel between two countries - Brazil and the UK - attempts to contextualise the theoretical framework developed in the preceding chapter. It will be argued that, despite …
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The modern uses of tradition in contemporary Korean theatre: A critical analysis from an intercultural perspective
… Such has resulted in the emergence of a new intercultural theatre which fuses native Korean and Western theatres.
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An investigation into how Chinese college students make sense of films and TV series from an intercultural perspective: Implications for English language teaching
… sense of foreign films and TV series from an intercultural perspective, and then explores the theoretical and pedagogical implications of the findings on the use of foreign films and TV series in English language teaching, particularly for developing students’ intercultural communicative …
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The impact of intercultural differences in change agentry interventions in technology transfer
<p>This qualitative study explored the effects of intercultural differences on technology transfer interventions. More specifically, the emphasis was on key differences between the worldviews of change agents and clients that impact such change agentry attempts. Utilizing frameworks taken from …
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Borders and Objects: Representing the Geopolitical in New World Art Histories, 1990-2010
… knowledge and information by encompassing global perspectives into the methodologies that underpin their approaches to art historiography. This dissertation aims to explore how, in developing their new approaches to world art history, they have drawn on a range of natural and social sciences, thus …
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From Culture Shock to Cultural Adaptation: A Workbook for International Students
… from a progressive, economic, sociocultural, and intercultural perspective. Thus, the organizing purpose and principle of the project is to enable cultural adaptation for students who reside in San Francisco by instilling in them proximal, behavioral, and situational safety awareness. The project …
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Practical English for Chinese Newcomers: A Handbook for Teachers
… is thus important from a sociocultural and intercultural perspective. Therefore, the underlying purposes of this project is to enhance English communicative competence and American cultural adaptation among new Chinese immigrants by immersing them in authentic, situational, and practical …
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Towards the Development of a Cultural Competence Framework for Human Resource Development Professionals in International Business: A Study of Best Practice Learning and Diversity Companies
… assessed. The theoretical framework used was an intercultural perspective of intercultural competence, studies in HRD that focus on a training-culture context fit, and professional definitions of cultural competence. A mixed research method utilizing survey and personal interviews was employed to …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Hegemonic Insider-Outsider in Teacher Education
… teachers to learn and practice taking critical perspectives and use reflection for their future teaching practice (McDonald & Zeichner, 2009). Despite preservice teachers’ interest and effort in engaging with racially and culturally just educational work, their approaches often result in …
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DIS/REORIENTATION OF CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN THE U.S.: COMMUNICATING RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE GLOBAL-LOCAL DIALECTIC
… there has been a growing interest among critical intercultural communication scholars to theorize race and ethnicity as social constructions and relations of power, but this theorization has mostly happened in the U.S. and Western contexts. The transnational and globalized dimensions of race and …