Western University – Course Design Workshops
Special Workshop – May 2017 – Intercultural
Goals: gto introduce participants to a set of learning activities and facilitation tools that they will be able to use when they facilitate intercultural, cosmopolitan or global learning in their class.
Participants will
- begin to (re)design a course that promotes global engagement in their discipline;
- become familiar with intensity factors that may affect student learning in diverse settings (Paige, 1993); and
- design reflective learning activities and debriefing strategies that will help students articulate what they have learned from intercultural learning experiences.
Check out:
Paige, R. M. (1993). On the nature of intercultural experiences and intercultural education. In R. M. Paige (Ed.), Education for the intercultural experience (pp. 1–20). Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
Leask, B. (2013). Internationalizing the curriculum in the disciplines: Imagining new possibilities. Journal of Studies in International Education, 17(2), 103-118. about the role of faculty in developing intercultural components in their courses CBIE Research
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