Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education

GERHARD APFELTHALER is Chair, Department of International Management, Fachhochschule Joanneum, Austria NATALIA YEVGENYEVNA COLLINGS is Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University, USA JOHANNES CRONJÉ is Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa GARTH DAVIES is Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada CATHERINE DOHERTY is Lecturer, Socio-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia SUSANA EISENCHLAS is Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia SILVINA ITUARTE is Assistant Professor, California State University East Bay, USA KUNI JENKINS is Professor, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, New Zealand ALISON JONES is Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand EIJA KÄLLSTRÖM is Assistant Head, Department of Business, Media, and Technology, Arcada, University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland REGITZE KRISTENSEN is Head of Development, Tietgen Business College, Denmark CATHERINE MANATHUNGA is Lecturer in Higher Education, University of Queensland, Australia IRENE C.L. NG is Senior Lecturer, Marketing, University of Exeter, UK NIALL PALFREYMAN is Professor, Systems Biology, Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences, Freising, Germany ULF SCHUETZE is Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Canada JULIE ANN SVENKERUD is Associate Professor, Buskerud University College, Norway PARLO SINGH is Head of School, Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia LOIS SMITH is Co-ordinator, Project for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates SUSAN TREVASKES is Australian Research Council Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University, Australia

• List of Contributors Introduction: Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education; D.Palfreyman PART 1: ISSUES Preface to Part 1: Issues in Multicultural Tertiary Education; D.Palfreyman Cross-Cultural Differences in Learning and Education: Stereotypes, Myths and Realities; G.Apfelthaler, K.Hansen, S.Keuchel, C.Mueller, M.Neubauer, Siow Heng Ong & N.Tapachai Teaching Business Studies to Far East Students in the UK; I.C.L.Ng Cultural Learning in the Absence of Culture? A Study of How Students Learn Foreign Language and Culture in a Tertiary Classroom; N.Y.Collings Perception of 'Self' and 'Other': Social Boundaries That Influence Teaching and Learning in Increasingly Diverse U.S. Classrooms; S.Ituarte & G.Davies Intercultural Postgraduate Supervision: Ethnographic Journeys of Identity and Power; C.Manathunga Mobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers' Assumptions of 'The Asian Learner'; C.Doherty & P.Singh Cross-Cultural Engagementin Higher Education Classrooms: A Critical View of Dialogue; A.Jones & K.Jenkins PART 2: PRACTICE Preface to Part 2: Practice in the Multicultural Tertiary Classroom; D.L.Mcbride One Size Fits All? Faculty Professional Development Workshops in a Multicultural Context; L.Smith Intercultural Competence: Examples of Internationalising the Curriculum Through Students' Interactions; S.Eisenchlas & S.Trevaskes Afrikaners and Arabs: Negotiating Course Delivery in a Blended Learning Context; J.C.Cronjé Assessing Intercultural Dialogue: The German 'Wald' and the Canadian 'Forest'; U.Schuetze Virtual Internships for International Cooperation: Experiences of Learning, Teaching and Networking; R.Kristensen, E.Källström & J.A.Svenkerud Teaching Bioinformatics: Using Storytelling to Negotiate Cultural Divisions in the Sciences; N.Palfreyman References Index

Awarded a Bookstore Book Award by the University of Lethbridge Bookstore“The twelve chapters of this book take a comprehensive view of diversity in higher education teaching, learning, and assessment. … the author provides substantive and exhaustive bulleted lists in each chapter, a diverse set of highlighted good practice accounts, and a full chapter devoted to higher education teacher development. The book is easy to navigate, written in clear prose … . I would recommend this book highly to teachers and administrators in higher education across the disciplines.” (Joanne Maguire Robinson, Reflective Teaching, 2016)'This book does highlight the complexities of intercultural teaching and learning and expands the theoretical and practical possibilities. Educators will find most chapters in this book of interest, offering as they do some practical ideas for action, as well as theoretical propositions and sometimes discomforting challenges to our own beliefs and understandings about learning and teaching across cultures in higher education.' - Higher Education Research& Development'...offers food for thought and action.' - Studies in Higher Education