Lost in Transnation - Towards an Intercultural Dimension on Campus

Cover

Title

Impressum

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Learning Beliefs and Intercultural Communication on Campus

Special Presentation by Jin Li

Mind and Virtue – The meaning of learning across cultures –

Socratic & Confucian Cultural Learning Beliefs

Learning Beliefs in a Multicultural Setting

General Implications

Contents and Contexts: Negotiating Transnational Education

Distinctive Features of Our Era

Transnational Education

Three Counterstrategies

Major Problems of Intercultural Communication – Introduction

Facts About Foreign Students in Germany

Intercultural Competence

Incorporating Intercultural Competence at German Universities

Final Remarks

Relational Cultural Theory – Lost in Transnation – Found in Connection –

Connection

Relevancy of a Relational-Cultural Model

Changing Places and Switching Codes

Facing Cultural Challenges on Campus – Towards a new intercultural quality

Consequences of Integration Challenges

The Universe of Mini-Worlds

The Background of the Violent Confrontation

Missing Years

Segmented Environment

Tentative Solutions

Graduating and Becoming an Alumnus

Towards Intercultural Quality

Exploring Cultural Differences in the Classroom – What's Happening?

Overview of Cultural Differences in the Classroom

Reasons for Cultural Differences

Adressing Cultural Differences in the Classroom

The Interculturally Competent Teacher in the Culturally Diverse Classroom

Practical Implications and Further Questions

Host Families at German Universities – Possible effects of Intercultural encounter programs – Indroduction

Issue and Theoretical Frame

Design of the Study

Two Examples

Conclusion

Making Best Practice Even Better

Mastering the Gap between Theory and Practice in Academic Intercultural Training

Abstract

The European University Viadrina and its Need for an Intercultural Competence Program

Developing An Understanding of Intercultural Competence

Revealing the Philosophy of Science

Revealing the Concept of Intercultural Competence

The Program's Concept of a Intercultural Competence

Assessing the Student's Intercultural Competence

The Role-Play "Archivum 2060" as Instrument for the Assessment of Intercultural Competence

Conclusion

Hochschule Bremen – Towards an Integral "International Campus" Concept

Abstract

The International Profile

Projects for More Service

Project "Incoming Students" 2001-2004: Focusing on Exchange Students

Project "PROFIS" 2005-2007: Focusing on Undergraduate Degree Students

Projekt "Alumni Plus" 2006-2008: Focusing on Alumni

PROFI Results: The Turning Point

The Internationalization Strategy Re-considered

The First Pieces of the Puzzle

Summary and Conclusions

"How To Go Intercultural?" Developing academic support schemes for interntional students

PREPARE: The First Step Towards Studying at the University of Bremen

KOMPASS: Support and Self-Commitment at the University of Bremen

Academic Mentoring

Global Education

Conclusion

Multi-Cultural Team Project: An Experiential Exercise in Cross Cultural Management

Introducion

Multi-Cultural Team Project

Phase One: Getting to Know Each Other

Phase Two: Team Project

Evaluation of Participants' Experiences

Conclusion

From "Distributed Campus" to "Open DC" – Intercultural Knowledge Transfer Online

Intercultural and Academic Online Coaching

Structural and Technical Transfer Options

Evolution Path and Project Development

Technical Infrastructure

Conclusion

Lost in Transnation: An Invitation to Mobility of Thought and Action

Campus Life is Changing

An Invitation

Author Index

Backcover