| Description |
xii, 155 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The staff and educational development series |
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Staff and educational development series.
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| Contents |
"Canaries in the coalmine": international students in western universities / Janette Ryan and Jude Carroll -- Maximising international students' "cultural capital" / Janette Ryan and Susan Hellmundt -- Gathering cultural knowledge: useful or use with care? / Kam Louie -- Strategies for becoming more explicit / Jude Carroll -- "Lightening the load": teaching in English, learning in English / Jude Carroll -- Building intercultural competencies: implications for academic skills development / Patricia McLean and Laurie Ransom -- Writing in the international classroom / Diane Schmitt -- Fostering intercultural learning through multicultural group work / Glauco deVita -- Multicultural groups for discipline-specific tasks: can a new approach be more effective? / Jude Carroll -- Improving teaching and learning practices for international students: -- Implications for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment / Janette Ryan -- Postgraduate supervision / Janette Ryan -- Internationalisation of curriculum: an institutional approach / Graham Webb -- Internationalisation of the curriculum: teaching and learning / Betty Leask -- Postgraduate research: the benefits for institutions, supervisors, and students of working across and between cultures / James Sillitoe, Janis Webb and Christabel Ming Zhang -- East meets West: an unfolding liminal relationship between an international postgraduate and an American faculty member / Anne-Marie Read, Mengying Li -- Collaborating and co-learning: sharing the message on teaching -- International students within institutions / Lee Dunn and Jude Carroll -- The student experience: challenges and rewards / Janette Ryan |
| Summary |
"Teaching International Students demonstrates how improved training for teachers and a better understanding of the international student can enhance the experience of both and, ultimately, provide more positive learning environments for international students in the higher education system."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Students, Foreign -- English-speaking countries.
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Multicultural education -- English-speaking countries.
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College teaching -- English-speaking countries.
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| Author |
Carroll, Jude.
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Ryan, Janette, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2005014220 |
| ISBN |
0415350662 (paperback) |
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0415350654 (hardback) |
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9780415350662 (paperback) |
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9780415350655 (paperback) |
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